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Elizabeth Johanna Gilbert

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2025

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The Bibazon

Elizabeth Johanna Gilbert

Submitted to Contest #314

Looking westwards, over the hilltops extinguished by the night’s deepest flight, there is Altair, the swift-spinning star transfixing the throat of Aquila—amid the self-canonized canon of Western constellations, the eagle who clasps the thunderbolts of Zeus in unearthly talons. In the reckoning of stellar lifetimes, Altair is only a youth at one hundred million years old; the melancholic stegosaurs could not have glimpsed it. Overhead, the sister-stars of the Pleiades cling to one another, longing for a waning moon. This is the natural ...

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Doomsdays

Elizabeth Johanna Gilbert

Submitted to Contest #285

Even when the sky fell, we thought the world to be wonderful. Most (not all) of you have only imagined it, but I remember: the rush of sudden and unbelievable heat, vaporizing lagoons and living things, and the shockwaves shattering trees and rockfall and leaving so many people deafened and dead—and the light, the light, a light so bright that it was darkness.  Before our doomsday, the world was superlative, superabundant, though we had no way of cataloging every jungle with eyes slitted amidst gigantic ferns, savannahs and thrivi...

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