Week 1 Short Story Introduction
Many years ago, lived an oceanic goddess who had the power to control the ocean. Her job was to support and protect any body of water. She did this with a flick of a finger, and each finger commanded a specific part important to maintaining the bodies of water. To humans, this job sounds like a meager energy task. However, the goddess worked day and night to prepare for the upcoming lifeforms’ arrival. Us humans call these lifeforms Marine creatures.
The marine animals started to appear out of thin air, and the goddess felt great joy. Each creature marveled in the ocean’s radiance, and creatures who lived in other bodies of water were ecstatic about the algae and seaweed. The fish wanted to tell the goddess how thankful they were, but they were not able to.
Over time the fish that would swim near the goddess began to speak. The goddess was not surprised as she expected this outcome. They thanked her for the power of speech and gave the goddess a name, this name was Anahita.
Week 2 First Draft
Many years ago, lived an oceanic goddess who had the power to control the ocean. Her job was to support and protect any body of water. She did this with a flick of a finger, and each finger commanded a specific part important to maintaining the bodies of water. To humans, this job sounds like a meager energy task. However, the goddess worked day and night to prepare for the upcoming lifeforms’ arrival. Us humans call these lifeforms Marine creatures.
The marine animals started to appear out of thin air, and the goddess felt great joy. Each creature marveled in the ocean’s radiance, and creatures who lived in other bodies of water were ecstatic about the algae and seaweed. The fish wanted to tell the goddess how thankful they were, but they were unable to. Over time the fish that swam close to the goddess began to speak. The goddess was not surprised as she expected this outcome. They thanked her for the power of speech and gave the goddess a name, this name was Anahita.
The fish would stay by her side for decades, and eventually, they began looking more like the goddess. This continued for the past months until they became a new species known as mermaids and mermen. At first, the transformed fish panicked; they started apologizing for looking similar to the goddess expecting Anahita to be angry. However, Anahita smiled and said to the merfolk to never apologize for how they look. Each creature looked at the goddess in awe. The mermaids began to worship and serve Anahita as if she was their queen.
Eventually, the mermaids and mermen decided that Anahita should become the queen of merpeople. However, the goddess had no interest in becoming queen, she only wanted to focus on protecting every body of water. However, when she denied the offer, Anahita immediately felt a great pain in her soul. For every mermaid and merman became distraught with sadness, this gave the goddess a new feeling, guilt. Overwhelmed with this new emotion, Anahita immediately revoked her previous answer. Every mermaid and merman waited eagerly for her response; the goddess wanting the new feeling to stop accepted her new title as queen of the merpeople.
A few years later, the merpeople started to create a society with jobs such as cave and rock designers, barbers, clothing designers, teachers, seaweed farmers, fish breeders, and more. This did not lessen work for the goddess though, she still needs to organize fish, maintain sea plants, create large rocks for fish, observe sharks and marine mammals breeding, and so much more. Even with her work increasing, the goddess never stressed; her mood stayed calm, calm as a river is what the merpeople referred to the goddess.
Week 2 Flashback Prompt
Before creating the universe, there was only God. He would spend decades creating shapes, smells, and purposes for every piece of the world. One day when God was working, he was suddenly interrupted with a vision of the future. He saw himself tired and overwhelmed over a new creation. Changing his future, God decided to create a being who will wield half of his powers. Grabbing a clay-like substance from a nearby cloud, God began to shape the being with his hands, God decided to make this creature in his image, but with a few additional changes. He lessened the height, shrunk the arm size, gave the face a softer look, and more. God looked at his creation and said, “You will be known as a female, but there is still more work to be done on you.” Pulling premade hair from a recently made planet, God changed the hair from a dark red to light gold with streaks of a lighter blonde and placed each strand on her blank statuelike form. Adding two eyes, and with a tap of color, his daughter was born.
The small goddess was created to be 3 years old because he wanted his daughter to have a head start in knowledge. The being opened her eyes and spoke her first word, “Beard!” the child said while tugging on God’s white beard. “Beard!” the small goddess repeated, God was expecting her first word to be Dada, but he’s not complaining. “Close enough,” God said. He watched the tiny curious goddess tug on clouds, taste molding clay, and jump around. God, with a sudden realization, snapped his fingers to create a kitchen entirely made of clouds, God wanted to celebrate her birth with a new food invention.
“Clouds?” the child thought as she watched her father create a brand new invention. The young goddess was filled with curiosity, “Clouds… Clouds… Clouds!” she realized, picking a piece of cloud underneath her. She started to pick at each cloud, revealing the ingredients God used to create creatures. As any child would, she flattened the clay and carved a snake-like animal. “Eelisa!” the child cheered, proud of her creation, grabbed the figure, and ran to God. “Another success!” God said to himself, “Now, to summon my child.” Taking a medium breath, he called the young goddess, “Come to th-” interrupted by a small poke on his back, God looked down to see the young goddess; he child had run into her father’s back.
Worried about his child, God asked if she was hurt. The child unphased from the impact smiled, and yelled, “Eelisa!” God was confused until the child held up a small figure. “What’s that?” God asked in a playful tone. The child placed a small statue of a snake-like creature in her father’s hands. “Hmm…, what was the name you gave it?” The young goddess shouted, “Eelisa!” God answered his child with a laugh, Eelisa is a bit long…how about Eel?” “Eel, Eel, Eel!” the child jumped and cheered around the kitchen. “These creatures will be named Eel!” The child looked at her father, baffled, “Creatures?” God cupped his hands to reveal life’s creative process, “That looks hard!” the goddess complained. God responded with, “It is a hard job, and you will master this skill one day.” God placed the figure in his child’s hands and said with a sweet smile, “You already are.”
The goddess stared at her father in admiration, and then immediately got distracted by the cake. God grabbed the cake with both hands, sat on the cloud floor with his daughter, and created a chair with the words Happy Life Day carved on the back, “I created a cake to celebrate your birth!” The young goddess looked at the cake, it was pure white with a tiny angel on top. The child looked at her father with gleaming eyes, but then God pointed at the cake again. The goddess thought that the hand gesture meant to eat the cake with no mercy, this was not the case. She looked at the cake to see letters on her cake. “Is it rotting?” the child asked in a worried tone, God gave a small chuckle, “No, it’s your name.” The goddess paused and asked, “What’s a name?” “A name is what confirms your existence in any world; without a name, you would have no ability of speech, and one day I will give you a world.” The child responded in confusion, Why can I talk?” God smiled and said, “Anahita, I knew what name to give you the second you opened your eyes.” Anahita locked eyes with her father and devoured the cake in front of him. “I’m glad you enjoyed the Angel Cake…did you leave any for me?” Anahita nodded and opened her hand to reveal a crumb, “… Greed is your first lesson topic.” Anahita smiled and ate the morsel with a thumbs up. “She has a lot to learn.” God thought to himself.
Week 3 Mezzo Draft
Before creating the universe, there was only God. He would spend decades to create shapes, smells, and purposes for every piece of the world. However, over time, God foresaw a future that showed himself becoming tired and overwhelmed over with water creation. To stop this outcome, he decided to create a creature that would help him create water and other resources in the future. With a cloud-like substance, God began to shape the being with his hands, God decided to make this creature in his image with additional changes. He lessened the height, shrunk the arm size, gave the face a softer look, and more. God looked at his creation and said, “You will be known as a female, but there is still more work to be done on you.” Pulling out leftover hair from a recently made planet, God changed the hair from a dark red to light gold with streaks of a lighter blonde and placed each strand on her blank statuelike form. Adding two eyes, and with a tap of color, his daughter was born.
Many years ago, lived an oceanic goddess who had the power to control the ocean. Her job was to support and protect any body of water. She did this with a flick of a finger, and each finger commanded a specific part important to maintaining the bodies of water. To humans, this job sounds like a meager energy task. However, the goddess worked day and night to prepare for the upcoming lifeforms’ arrival. Us humans call these lifeforms Marine creatures.
The marine animals started to appear out of thin air, and the goddess felt great joy. Each creature marveled in the ocean’s radiance, and creatures who lived in other bodies of water were ecstatic about the algae and seaweed. The fish wanted to tell the goddess how thankful they were, but they were unable to. Over time the fish that swam close to the goddess began to speak. The goddess was not surprised as she expected this outcome. They thanked her for the power of speech and gave the goddess a name, this name was Anahita.
The fish would stay by her side for decades, and eventually, they began looking more like the goddess. This continued for the past months until they became a new species known as mermaids and mermen. At first, the transformed fish panicked; they started apologizing for looking similar to the goddess expecting Anahita to be angry. However, Anahita smiled and said to the merfolk, “Never apologize for how you look.” Each creature looked at the goddess in awe. The mermaids began to worship and serve Anahita as if she was their queen.
Eventually, the mermaids and mermen decided that Anahita should become the queen of merpeople. However, the goddess had no interest in becoming queen, she only wanted to focus on protecting every body of water. However, when she denied the offer, Anahita immediately felt a great pain in her soul. Every mermaid and merman became distraught with sadness; this gave the goddess a new feeling, guilt. Overwhelmed with this new emotion, Anahita immediately revoked her previous answer. Every mermaid and merman waited eagerly for her response; the goddess wanting the new feeling to stop accepted her new title as queen of the merpeople.
A few years later, the merpeople started to create a society with jobs such as cave and rock designers, barbers, clothing designers, teachers, seaweed farmers, fish breeders, and more. This did not lessen work for the goddess though, she still needs to organize fish, maintain sea plants, create large rocks for fish, observe sharks and marine mammals breeding, etc. Even with her work increasing, the goddess never stressed; her mood stayed calm, calm as a river is what the merpeople referred to the goddess.
However, when the goddess heard this phrase, all she could think was how she wasn’t always as calm as a river, until that one day. She can still recall that one particular day when she received a message from her father and creator God. He informed her about a species being made in his and Anahita’s image. Curious, she asked, “What are you going to name them?” God said that the creatures will be known as humans, Anahita, about to ask about an increase of work, gets cut off by God, “The humans love war and attack what they don’t understand.” Anahita, about to speak, gets cut off by God again, “Anahita, you will face emotional challenges that no creature can endure.” This comment scared Anahita, and then he spoke again, “I will train you, but if this becomes too difficult, let me know, and I’ll bring you back home while I take on your job.” Anahita, with a nod, tells God she’s ready.
God trained Anahita in person for two years, each day more painful than the last. Anahita was taught to keep herself calm no matter the dire situation, enduring the loss of merpeople, erasing the memories of the merpeople who have fallen in love with humans, destroying anyone who gets close to her kingdom, and more horrific trials. She remembers her last emotion of happiness leaving her. Then God made one final comment, Anahita, you stayed calm in terrible situations, and I am so proud. I have created a room to release your emotions because showing no emotion to others is exhausting, never disregard your feelings.” Anahita sitting on her throne, started to feel sadness and regret from this memory but quickly disregarded them. Anahita ignored God’s advice and blocked her emotions, “I have to stay calm, I don’t have a choice.”
Week 3 Final Draft
Before creating the universe, there was only God. He would spend decades creating shapes, smells, and purposes for every piece of the world. One day when God was working, he was suddenly interrupted with a vision of the future. He saw himself tired and overwhelmed over a new creation. Changing his future, God decided to create a being who will wield half of his powers. Grabbing a clay-like substance from a nearby cloud, God began to shape the being with his hands, God decided to make this creature in his image, but with a few additional changes. He lessened the height, shrunk the arm size, gave the face a softer look, and more. God looked at his creation and said, “You will be known as a female, but there is still more work to be done on you.” Pulling premade hair from a recently made planet, God changed the hair from a dark red to light gold with streaks of a lighter blonde and placed each strand on her blank statuelike form. Adding two eyes, and with a tap of color, his daughter was born.
The small goddess was created to be 3 years old because he wanted his daughter to have a head start in knowledge. The being opened her eyes and spoke her first word, “Beard!” the child said while tugging on God’s white beard. “Beard!” the small goddess repeated, God was expecting her first word to be Dada, but he’s not complaining. “Close enough,” God said. He watched the tiny curious goddess tug on clouds, taste molding clay, and jump around. God, with a sudden realization, snapped his fingers to create a kitchen entirely made of clouds, God wanted to celebrate her birth with a new food invention.
“Clouds?” the child thought as she watched her father create a brand new invention. The young goddess was filled with curiosity, “Clouds… Clouds… Clouds!” she realized, picking a piece of cloud underneath her. She started to pick at each cloud, revealing the ingredients God used to create creatures. As any child would, she flattened the clay and carved a snake-like animal. “Eelisa!” the child cheered, proud of her creation, grabbed the figure, and ran to God. “Another success!” God said to himself, “Now, to summon my child.” Taking a medium breath, he called the young goddess, “Come to th-” interrupted by a small poke on his back, God looked down to see the young goddess; the child had run into her father’s back.
Worried about his child, God asked if she was hurt. The child unphased from the impact smiled, and yelled, “Eelisa!” God was confused until the child held up a small figure. “What’s that?” God asked in a playful tone. The child placed a small statue of a snake-like creature in her father’s hands. “Hmm…, what was the name you gave it?” The young goddess shouted, “Eelisa!” God answered his child with a laugh, Eelisa is a bit long…how about Eel?” “Eel, Eel, Eel!” the child jumped and cheered around the kitchen. “These creatures will be named Eel!” The child looked at her father, baffled, “Creatures?” God cupped his hands to reveal life’s creative process, “That looks hard!” the goddess complained. God responded with, “It is a hard job, and you will master this skill one day.” God placed the figure in his child’s hands and said with a sweet smile, “You already are.”
The goddess stared at her father in admiration, and then immediately got distracted by the cake. God grabbed the cake with both hands, sat on the cloud floor with his daughter, and created a chair with the words Happy Life Day carved on the back, “I created a cake to celebrate your birth!” The young goddess looked at the cake, it was pure white with a tiny angel on top. The child looked at her father with gleaming eyes, but then God pointed at the cake again. The goddess thought that the hand gesture meant to eat the cake with no mercy, this was not the case. She looked at the cake to see letters on her cake. “Is it rotting?” the child asked in a worried tone, God gave a small chuckle, “No, it’s your name.”
The goddess paused and asked, “What’s a name?” “A name is what confirms your existence in any world; without a name, you would have no ability of speech, and one day I will give you a world.” The child responded in confusion, “Why can I talk?” God smiled and said, “Anahita, I knew what name to give you the second you opened your eyes.” Anahita locked eyes with her father and devoured the cake in front of him. “I’m glad you enjoyed the Angel Cake…did you leave any for me?” Anahita nodded and opened her hand to reveal a crumb, “… Greed is your first lesson topic.” Anahita smiled and ate the morsel with a thumbs up. “She has a lot to learn.” God thought to himself.
Many years later, an unnamed oceanic goddess who had the power to control the ocean was rumored among every land animal. The goddess walked along the shoreline rarely because she was given a job by God himself. Her job was to support and protect any body of water. She did this with a flick of a finger, and each finger commanded a specific part important to maintaining the bodies of water. To humans, this job sounds like a meager energy task. However, the goddess worked day and night to prepare for the upcoming lifeforms’ arrival. Us humans call these lifeforms marine creatures.
The marine animals started to appear out of thin air, and the goddess felt great joy. Each creature marveled in the ocean’s radiance, and creatures who lived in other bodies of water were ecstatic about the algae and seaweed. The fish wanted to tell the goddess how thankful they were, but they were unable to. Over time the fish that swam close to the goddess began to speak. The goddess was not surprised as she expected this outcome. They thanked her for the power of speech and gave the goddess a name, this name was Anahita.
The fish would stay by her side for decades, and eventually, they began looking more like the goddess. This continued for months, until they became a new species known as mermaids and mermen. At first, the transformed fish panicked; they started apologizing for looking similar to the goddess expecting Anahita to be angry. However, Anahita smiled and said to the merfolk, “Never apologize for how you look.” Each creature looked at the goddess in awe. The mermaids began to worship and serve Anahita as if she was their queen.
Eventually, the mermaids and mermen decided that Anahita should become the queen of merpeople. However, the goddess had no interest in becoming queen, she only wanted to focus on protecting every body of water. However, when she denied the offer, Anahita immediately felt a great pain in her soul. Every mermaid and merman became distraught with sadness; this gave the goddess a new feeling, guilt. Overwhelmed with this new emotion, Anahita immediately revoked her previous answer. Every mermaid and merman waited eagerly for her response; the goddess wanting the new feeling to stop, and accepted her new title as queen of the merpeople.
A few years later, the merpeople started to create a society with jobs such as cave and rock designers, barbers, clothing designers, teachers, seaweed farmers, fish breeders, soldiers, and doctors. This did not lessen work for Anahita though, she still needed to organize fish, maintain sea plants, create large rocks for fish, observe sharks and marine mammals breeding, and form trenches. Even with her work increasing, the goddess never stressed; her mood stayed calm, calm as a river is what the merpeople referred to the goddess.
However, when the goddess heard this phrase, all she could think was how she wasn’t always as calm as a river, until that one day. She can still recall that one particular day when she received a message from her father and creator, God. He informed her about a species being made in his and Anahita’s image. Curious, she asked, “What are you going to name them?” God said that the creatures will be known as humans, Anahita, about to ask about an increase of work, was cut off by God, “The humans love war and attack what they don’t understand.” Anahita, about to speak, gets cut off by God again, “Anahita, you will face emotional challenges that no creature can endure.” This comment scared Anahita, and then he spoke again, “I will train you, but if this becomes too difficult, let me know, and I’ll bring you back home while I take on your job.” Anahita, with a nod, tells God she’s ready.
God trained Anahita in person for two years, each day more painful than the last. Anahita was taught to keep herself calm no matter the dire situation, enduring the loss of merpeople, erasing the memories of the merpeople who have fallen in love with humans, destroying anyone who gets close to her kingdom, and more horrific trials. She remembered her last emotion of happiness leaving her. Then God made one final comment, “Anahita, you stayed calm in terrible situations, and I am so proud. I have created a room to release your emotions because showing no emotion to others is exhausting, never disregard your feelings.” Anahita sitting on her throne, started to feel sadness and regret from her memory but quickly disregarded them. Anahita ignored God’s advice and blocked her emotions, “I have to stay calm, and I can’t show weakness because if I do, father would never trust me again.” I don’t have a choice, not this time.”Anahita felt a small poke on her back, looking back she noticed a small eel. “Did you run into me, and are you ok?” The eel nodded and wrapped themselves onto the Goddesses arm. I’m going to name you Eelisa she said smiling at the eel. The eel smiled back with her mouth open. Little did Anahita know, this interaction would change her life forever.
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