pangledon

Fin

lxndr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:01 +0000

Pangledon is closed until I am more inspired.

Sorry, everyone.

life is pressing in

lxndr — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:29:33 +0000

Taking the rest of the month off.

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lxndr — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:07:49 +0000

Beneath the moon, David and Judy wait.

“Is it time?”

“Almost.”

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lxndr — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:19:17 +0000

The snow has returned, billowing in the mists. Soon, there are drifts six, seven feet high.

Mark hasn’t seen the snow in a year. He remembers his arrival, lost in the mists and the cold. He’d lost Judy, and he’d found that asshole David. Now he had Debbie, and a kingdom.

Still, he wonders.

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lxndr — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:31:52 +0000

The king’s jaguars prowl the lighthouse, and the land. His soldiers are loyal to him.

He rules with his queen at his side. She still wears the tiara. The king has taken her child, a son, as his heir.

There is a feast, the body of an aurochs roasted over an open fire. The sailors are reveling. It is a good day.

Still, King Mark broods. David and Judy have been absent for a year. He imagines them plotting against him. He did not quite believe the pilot’s stories about the moon, until Bob clambered into his airplane and flew away. He feels he should be happy – he has a land to rule, a beautiful wife, and a baby boy. But it feels empty.

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lxndr — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:31:40 +0000

Time passes.

A year has flown by.

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lxndr — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:18:03 +0000

Without ignition, a fire begins burning in Pharos, where the sword once was. The signal light returns, swinging around the land, burning through the mists.

“What in tarnation?” The pilot almost jumps, startled.

“I am illuminated yet again,” Pharos says, pleased. “Thank you.”

YOU’RE WELCOME

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lxndr — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:09:46 +0000

The lighthouse sighs.

“I have lost my Keeper, and my light. How am I to show the way?”

Cheyenne walks out of the wall. “Don’t worry, Pharos. You handled yourself fine after we lost Laramie.”

The pilot looks bewildered at the ghost. “I don’t think I’ll ever get used to that.”

Cheyenne dimples at him. “Well, there are more things in heaven and Earth, and all that…”

The pilot nods and smiles as if he understood what she just said. “You know, you remind me of Belinda.”

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lxndr — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:52:28 +0000

“What do you think happened to her?”

The pilot looks to the sky before answering David. “I wish I knew,” he says. “Is it just me, or does the moon look different?”

Inside Pharos, the sword flashes, blazing brightly. David looks at it. “I think it wants me?”

The pilot shrugs. “This place is too crazy. I don’t know.”

David heads inside and takes up the sword. And vanishes.

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lxndr — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:02:47 +0000

Mark buckles his pants.

“Thank you, Debbie,” he says. “Unfortunately, you’ve been a distraction.” He walks to the throne, and sits. “If I’m to conquer this world, it must be now.”

“Conquer?” The blonde twirls a finger in her hair. “Is that why you had me call you King?”

“Damn straight,” Mark says, as outside the eyes of the Jaguars glow red, and they all growl and come to life.

Debbie puts a hand over her mouth, and runs out of the room. Wretching sounds can be heard.