tarot story draw

[alexconall]

I find that the tarot is an aid to creativity. I am offering a one-card draw using the Hanson-Roberts deck: you ask for a card and leave a prompt of up to five words, and I draw you a tarot card and write you a story of approximately one hundred words based on your card and your prompt.

If you feel inclined to feed the author, every dollar you donate adds about one hundred words to your story (or to another commenter's story if you'd rather). If you donate, please tell me which story you want more of.

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Comments

[perfectworry]

I'll ask for a card and a flash fic with the prompt "only waking when I sleep."

Thanks!

Six of Pentacles: knowledge and the lack thereof

[alexconall]

"Would you like fries with that? —no pickles, got it, would you like fries with that?"

Daytime is desolate.

While I sleep, I learn. My classmates are other dreamers, filled with color and laughter and joie de vivre. We listen to music from around the world, watch with wonder the dance styles accompanying, taste food from many cultures. We are lectured on literature from each of our homelands, then argue with the teacher—most of us do not speak the Chinese of Lao Tzu or the Japanese of Murasaki Shikibu or the Akkadian of Enheduanna, so something is certainly lost in translation, but the sense carries through.

Then I wake.

[ariestess]

I would love a card, no specific question. As for a prompt, how about "by the moon's light"?

*offers good healing vibes*

Two of Swords--not knowing, sometimes on purpose

[alexconall]

She looks up to the light of the quarter moon, shining down on him as surely as on her though from a different angle, then over to the first star that catches her eye. Wish I may, wish I might—

He'll come home safe. He'll come home as whole as he left. He won't have been affected by the things he had to do over there, the things he had to see. He'll be able to slide back into civilian life like he never left it. He'll never have to go back, not ever.

—have the wish I wish tonight.

Re: Two of Swords--not knowing, sometimes on purpose

[ariestess]

Ack! My apologies for not replying sooner! Thank you for this!

Re: Two of Swords--not knowing, sometimes on purpose

[alexconall]

No worries. Glad you enjoyed!