Sims Life Musings

Here’s my final story for the contest. For this round I decided to try something slightly different (at least, different for me). Voting hasn’t started yet, but as the closing date has passed I’ve decided to post the story.

Midnight’s Kiss

How do you tell someone that you’re in love with them? With flowers, notes slipped into their pocket as they leave for work, or a romantic weekend in the country? All of those have been trusted methods over the years, together with the boy winning the big prize for the girl at the local fair and candlelit dinners in quiet little restaurants. Yes, it’s clear that often the best way to say “I love you” involves something that excludes other people. Two’s company, three’s a crowd, and more is definitely not merry (unless the boy wants to be the butt of his friends’ jokes).

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This story was written for the penultimate round of the writing contest I’ve been taking part in, and we had a limit of 3000 words. As a challenge worth more points we could attempt to write the story in a maximum of 500 words. Glutton for punishment that I am I went for the challenge version, and finished on 498 words  

The Last Train

“Please, let this year be different,” Frank sighed as he pulled away from Knightsbridge station.

Frank had been driving the trains on the Piccadilly line for twenty five years, and every year on 23rd November, at ten past midnight, the same thing happened. He wondered who he would have to comfort tonight, the fear so deeply etched onto their face that it was a miracle that their features ever returned to normal ….

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I almost forgot to post this! Here’s my Round 3 story for the contest I’m taking part in. It was written before I went away in February, but not posted here until now as it’s currently open for voting.

The Light of the North

My journey was almost at an end, and through the mist I could just make out the frozen city, shining like a beacon as it pulled me closer. This was only my second visit to Galathea, the land of the ice elves in the north, but unlike my first visit there would be no journey back to my homeland. In my world there are three domains, all side by side with the human world and largely invisible to their eyes. We share the same space, the same sun and moon, but to them our existence belongs to the world of myths and legends. We are all too aware of them, with their machinery and weapons that are capable of extinguishing all life at the push of a button, polluting the atmosphere with their poisonous fumes and general indifference. But they can’t see us as clearly. To the humans we appear only as shadows, or as a brief distraction when they catch sight of something out of the corners of their eyes. To them we don’t exist, but we are bound to them and what they do has consequences in our world as well as theirs. However it was not the humans’ actions that necessitated my journey to Galathea.

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