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Kristi Gott

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2022

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The Shining Light of "One Who Knows" - World Voyages of the Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #287

"Even the ocean murmurs to the woman named One Who Knows," the ancient villagers said. "She shares our joys and sorrows. She senses the depths in our hearts.""Everything in nature has an essence of the unseen forces. The winds, the trees, the animals, the sun, moon, and stars, and the clouds in the sky all call and whisper to One Who Knows."Thousands of years ago, during the last Ice Age Melting, when the sea rose, the villagers felt their lives were like reeds in a woven basket, woven into the natural world by the Unseen.Someone then might ...

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Ancient Villages Beneath the Waves - Voyages of the Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #285

The story of the submerged village under the sea was in the journals from the 1800s found in the lighthouse keeper's house in the attic.The first page of one of the journals began, “Journal Entry 78 - I, Anya, the Storyteller of the Blue Lantern, am writing this beneath the towering sails of the clipper ship Destiny’s Dreams. We are anchored off the coast of what they call California near a large bay. The events I describe are real.”A flat rock rested near the journal that showed a carving of a small boy playing with a dog. A dusty lantern w...

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Rescued by the Giant Octopus - Voyages of the Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #281

“In the ancient codices, how does the sun come back after it sinks into the ocean on the longest darkness of the year?” When the storyteller Ana spoke, she saw the shining eyes of nineteen-year-old Xochitli, the scholar of Nahuatl ancient history and myths.Xochitli's face and eyes showed someone with depths that held many secrets. The young Nahuatl woman spoke. “The sun, Tonatiuh, he who goes forth shining, is reborn as a hummingbird. It is in the hieroglyphics of the ancient codices.”She continued. “We must find the ancient codice...

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The Winged Serpent of the Pyramids - Voyages of the Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #280

“Yaretzi, what is the green winged serpent carving that you wear on the string around your neck?”The child called Citlali, meaning “Star,” looked at Yaretzi, whose name meant “You will always be loved.”Citlali’s face was lit with curiosity.Their group of family and friends were a peaceful community, wandering the ocean shores, mountains, and forests.The nomadic group still told the story of the rebel from the pyramid. Quauhtli the Eagle, led them away from the pyramid and its warlike people.They lived on the tropical west coast of the long b...

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The Albatross from the Ocean's Heart Meets the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #279

The circle of life was sweet.Each pink glow of morning led to a day of seafaring, gathering food on the islands, and meeting by the firesides for meals, tales, songs, and dances.The little girl named Lani and the boy called Kai played with the other children in the tropical forest, chasing each other through the trees, and swimming in the sea.Overhead the twelve foot wingspan of an albatross often soared.The mythic tales about Lani and Kai were discovered over a hundred years later.A saltwater stained journal from the clipper ship called Des...

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Captain Squidbeard of the Soggy Sardine - Voyages of the Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #278

The pirate known as “Captain Steelwave” of the fishing boat the Soggy Sardine was sometimes called "Captain Squidbeard" by his crew.He proudly wore the sprawling flame-colored cloud that floated around his head and body.His red beard and hair had a life of their own, like a giant sea creature attacking, with curling tentacles stretching out.A green vine from his last trek in a forest and some pieces of seaweed trailed from the masses of hair hanging down his back.His eyes were like chunks of coal with embers burning. Sparks seemed to fly at ...

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Dolphin Girl and Sea Cloud of the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #277

The rogue wave grasped Marin’s legs, whirled her around, then retreated out to sea, dragging her with it.She fought with her arms and legs, helpless, against the strength of the whole ocean.Then the power of the offshore riptide current caught her and rushed, carrying her farther from shore.She heard distant screams from the people at the beach over the roar of the surf.Water flowed over her head, pressing her downward, and she gasped for air in the darker depths of the sea. Her racing heart pounded.She bobbed to the surface, and saw a glimp...

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Mountain Cat Meets the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #275

In the 1800s off the northwest coast of South America a dark, cat-like shadow padded up the steps from below deck on a sailing schooner.The head of the animal tilted and the eyes glowed in the dark. It watched a man on the wooden deck of the boat, who was looking upward at the star constellations. The animal peered at the two legged creature and sniffed the air. She was young, and she was new to experiencing the world on her own after living with her mother.Curiosity and intelligence showed in her expressions. She slinked along with eye...

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Night Creatures on the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #274

Two million years ago a turtle munched tender green morsels while she floated on a giant mass of vegetation in the Pacific ocean.She did not know that someday, in the 1800s, her story would be part of the songs and myths sung by the people of the Andes Mountains in South America, to the music that a young boy named Paulo would play on his flute.One of her descendants would help rescue a clipper ship called Destiny’s Dreams in the 1800s from a creature of the sea depths.The hard-backed turtle, drifting on her living raft, also did not kn...

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Ancient Artist of the Orchid Cave - Voyages of the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #273

Thirteen-year-old Nube and her slender, hairless dog with grey skin, named Gris, gasped for air and ran for their lives.In the downpour of rain, the avalanche of mud and rocks came crashing down the mountain behind them.The air was full of their cries.It was in ancient times, over 1500 years ago, in the Amazon rainforest of South America, under the dripping canopy of trees in the Peruvian Andes mountains."Over here!" Her mama's voice called and the family rushed after her."But my paints. The red ochre." Nube's high pitched voice carried over...

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Floating Islands of Peru - Voyages of the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #272

Despite the fright from the puma who followed us, we wanted to continue the trek up the mountains after being at sea on the ship for so long.Afraid, yet exhilarated, shivering with thrills, sometimes running in fear with our hearts pounding, we continued into the unknown and wondered if the legends were true.These handwritten words in faded ink were in one of the journals in the wooden trunk. It was found in the attic of a lighthouse on the Mystical Coast. Some of the pages were torn or lost.The journals told the tales of the long-ago v...

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The Patagonia Llamas Connection with the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #271

In the 1800s, high on a volcanic island, the earth and the world shifted one day for three llamas and their human family members.Over a century later their story would be found in a sailor’s journal when an old wooden box in the attic of a lighthouse on the Mystical Coast was opened.It began with “I, Marco, was previously the keeper of books at the Biblioteca, the library, in Buenos Aires in 1850. Later my parrot Bonita and I became the library keepers on the clipper ship Destiny’s Dreams.There we met Captain Alfonse Belanger, who kept ...

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Dinosaur's Nest Fossils Found by the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #270

Seventy million years ago a 25 foot long dinosaur chewed, savoring a meal in the jagged mountains and valleys along the winding rivers of the southern tip of South America.It was a magaraptor dinosaur with sickle like claws.In the distance, a 10 foot tall, 7 foot long, bird like creature covered with feathers swallowed another bite of her dinner. Her eyes were on her baby dinosaur chicks climbing over the rocks and on the eggs that would hatch soon.Her mate nudged her and spoke with squawking trumpets of sound and gestures. She understood hi...

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Passages of Patagonia on the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #269

In the attic of a lighthouse keeper's house built in the 1800s on the Mystical Coast, someone opened a weatherbeaten old wooden box in the corner. It contained the ship's logs and journals from the 1800s for a vessel called Destiny's Dreams.There was also a colorful, textured woven cape. It must have been treasured by someone very much.These are the stories of the voyages of the Destiny's Dreams from those journals.******Silhouetted against the sky, the young sailor named Joaquin climbed the rope ladders to the ship’s topsails of the vessel ...

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Saved by a Laughing Parrot on the Ship Destiny's Dreams

Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #268

The books waited on their shelves to tell their stories to the next person.They were in the Biblioteca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Guanabara Bay, the western coast of South America, in the 1800s.Ten year old Marco walked the aisles and set the returned books back on their home shelves. It was another serene day with his family of books, who were alive with adventures, mysteries, and wisdom.The words from the story he was reading last night floated through Marco’s mind.“Square white sails filled with wind, the ship flew over the waves,...

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Author bio

https://kristigott.com

kristigott@gmail.com

Hello writers, I am from the wilderness, mountains, and Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon Central Coast, Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.

Below are some links where you can visit me online or contact me.

kristigott.com - my website and blog with all my reedsy stories and their illustrations (includes the required link backs to reedsy)

facebook - let's be friends - https://www.facebook.com/kristi.m.gott/

email: kristigott@gmail.com - contact me with your additional comments, suggestions, and thoughts about writing

I am writing light, whimsical, historical fiction with hints of fantasy for kids through adults.

I hope kids and adults have fun reading the stories and also get spurred to have an interest in the history and other information that inspires these tales.

The individual stories share themes of coastal living, historic fiction, ships, and animals and nature along ocean coastal areas.

For decades I have been a scenic photographer and fortunate to have won awards sometimes. I try to paint pictures with words in my writing.

I call these stories "Mystical Coast Stories" and they have hints of fantasy mixed with eras that may be in ancient times, or the 1800s, or modern day with flashbacks to hundreds or thousands of years ago.

website: https://kristigott.com -- (You'll need to copy that address and paste it into a search box.)

I try to integrate my studies in anthropology with creativity to create these historical fiction stories.

One of my college degrees is in Social Science and my anthropology, archeology, ancient history, and paleontology were my favorite classes, although I also took a lot of political science.

(My other college degree is in Computer Technology, but I also have education in healthcare. I worked in healthcare and technology most of my life.)

I always loved to read and to scribble down stories. My first story was in the third grade and it was about Autumn Leaves, written with a big, thick pencil on the large lines of the paper with about a dozen papers taped together. The teacher waved the long story on the taped papers around in the air like a kite tail.

In the fourth grade I wrote my first play for puppets and it was about a female astronet (not astronaut but the feminine) who goes to outer space to the Milky Way. We made puppets from toilet paper rolls and the class had a puppet stage where we crouched underneath. For the rocket explosion when she launched we threw flour through the air.

I used to race sailboats and have lived on large lakes and/or on the west coast of the United States.

Many of my stories are inspired by a love for being on the water or the beach, and by my love for nature and animals.

These days I roam the Oregon coast of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It is a wilderness with a temperate rainforest, small isolated villages, ocean ports, the second tallest trees in America (fir trees hundreds of feet tall) and lots of wild animals.

We are neighbors with black bears, cougars, whales migrating along the coast, and many other animals of the wilderness and sea.