Welcome to the TREE OF LIFE: Branching Out collaborative writing challenge, where creative minds meet epic movie music. To read the collective story in its entirety as it unfolds and for more details on this groundbreaking collaboration with Audiomachine click HERE.
Today’s featured guest is the masterful indie science fiction and fantasy author M. Pax. To read more from this incredibly gifted writer, visit M. Pax, where the stars are the beginning.
Inspiring Soundtrack: Audiomachine – Homecoming – Tree of Life
Until this moment, she believed brown so drab. Now it glimmered as inspiring as the greens incited by the horse’s tread, as breathtaking as a rainbow around the moon.
A tiny smile tickled her cheeks and her eyes, and she reached for the sunflower. Her fingertip heated, sizzled, flushing as pink as a blush. She shook her hand and brilliance as radiant as a star alit on her finger.
“Oh my!” She gasped and dared to meet the horse’s eye. The world swam in those inky pools, and her burning finger glowed in their depths like a signal fire. “Flames destroy. Light gives life. Which is this?”
The dapper man and his virile mount shifted from foot to foot, prancing, waiting. The steed’s soft snort warmed the breeze, sprouting a shower of petals — cosmos, dahlias, and violets.
She understood the decision belonged to her. Without fully understanding where her passions stood, she touched her finger to a twig.
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© 2013 M. Pax
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This was so fun. Can’t wait to see where this story goes.
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Mary, my friend. A wondrous way with words. Thank you 🙂
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Glad to hear you had a good time, Mary! Thank you for giving us “fire” for thought:)
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Mary has a way with words, that’s for sure.
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great story and terrific music!
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I love Mary Pax’s style. I’ll make my best to keep up with her.
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My friend, fatherdragon, you will do well. I believe this to be so and you will make it so 🙂
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Great piece, Mary!
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Greetings Mary, Samantha and all the rest of you fine people.
Mary, ah your words befitting the music. The ambience doth continue with wonder, splendour and magic. And her finger upon the twig, where the story now goes?
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Absolutely lyrical and evocative!! Perfectly suited to the score!
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What a lovely entry!
Mary is a wordsmith of note…
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The music…so evocative and the story…can’t wait to see where it goes…
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this excerpt gave me CHILLS, especially while reading it with the awesome music, holy crapola! MORE MORE MORE!!
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Such beautiful writing Mary! I loved it!
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Oh, Mary- what gorgeous writing! There’s so many visual images here that are just breath taking- the light, the color, the vitality in the plants growing. Just breathtaking.
And my favorite part is the magic you’ve introduced and the element of the character’s choice in whether or not she uses it.
Love this!
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Lovely words, and a fantastic setup for the next person. I love your descriptions.
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wow! That’s really how Trailer Music works, great way of writing!
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I enjoy that touch of something sizzling in your section, M Pax!
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fascinating imagery…!
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WOW! M Pax! That was so wonderful. Now I’m so hooked on what can or will happen next. Anything is possible and that’s even more exciting!
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