#WordWeavers 2026.10.11 — Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
I write 1st person narrative, which makes it almost impossible for me to find a setting that narrates for itself. This passage tells a story and is what I got in the time I was willing to spend. Incidentally, the woman is as black as night. The time is predawn and dark. The POV has wings and can fly.
Her stomach gurgled and she colored, fairly difficult considering her complexion. I sniffed, nose upward. Ah, grilled vegetables, fish. I looked as we walked. Day angels often populated the upper stories of city buildings and had a tradition of pop-up restaurants. I imagined red tents. Hidden orbiting sprites lit the roof with drifting golden, ruddy, and emeraline light, illuminating curdling flavored grey smoke that drifted north up to the sharp-edged building shadow. The smoke itself flickered with shadows cast by dozens of fluttering and milling patrons carrying plates and bowls, gesturing with wing or arm—a shadow play, a hungry drama cast toward the sky, an advertisement crying eat here. Actually, the food court extended to three adjacent buildings! We might be in an aerie neighborhood. My mouth watered. That meant choices.
"I'm hungry," I said, grabbing her and flying her up.
As always, posting compelled neurotic me to make revisions, which is a good thing, which I've copied back to the manuscript. Hashtags games have real world uses!
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