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rank 5457
word count 11417
date submitted 09.12.2011
date updated 09.12.2011
genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy
classification: moderate
incomplete

The Myth of Wings

A. L. Reynolds

Cassandra, an artist from England. Ed, an American WWII veteran. Both find themselves together in the afterlife. It is up to Cassie to discover why.

 

Yesterday it began. Yesterday was the falling through the sky and then the ground below, deadly and level and made of earth and grass. The noise was a thrumming, a taut noise of hard air striking and shivering past wings that would no longer fly. It was a scream that had no lungs to pant and make it stop. The men in the aircraft were beyond screaming. They were focussed on pulling up, pulling up, trying to make it so that the aircraft touched the ground more softly than a spear.


From Nanowrimo 2011, complete but not all uploaded.

 
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afterlife, america, angel, b-24, bomber, england, guilt, love, painter, reincarnation, sin, war, wwii

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Gordon Long wrote 167 days ago

Dear A. L.

You have a marvellous pair of characters here, and you are doing a good job of parcelling out the information slowly to us, keeping the mystery going. I'm a bit worried that we're already in Ch 7 and nothing has "happened" yet. Common wisdom in this business is to get the action going quite early in the story. Not having the rest of the novel, I can't comment on how it develops.

In any case, I really enjoyed it.

Gordon Long
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