I’ve always hated trees, but here I am, ________ through the ________, because
my girlfriend wants me to get into better ________. Of course, she’s far too
________ to come with me, so I’m just doing it ________, which is ________
ridiculous. But I ________ her, so I’m doing it. Plus, I know that if I don’t,
she will know it. She’ll pick up on my level of ________ when I get back, or
my ________ rate, or something. I wouldn’t be able to ________ skip it and
lie. She’s hyperobservant, bordering on the super____, so I’m not a hundred
percent sure she’s even ________. Anyway, I keep ________, and the ____er I
make it into the ________, the calmer I begin to ________. The noises of the
________ fade, and I find myself ________, which is how I always liked it
before I met ________. Maybe ________ aren’t so bad after all. Maybe I’m just
a ________ grump. Wouldn’t that be just ________? Finally, I come ________
this one tree that I can’t ________ past. I stare at it, then when I feel I’ve
seen enough of it, I ________ a bit, and try to step ________, but it won’t
________ me. No, it doesn’t have some kind of magic____ hold on me, but I
________ look away. It’s not a particularly ________ tree. Sure, it’s
different than all the ________ around ________, but if I were in a grove of
this ________ of tree, it wouldn’t ________ out. I memorize every square
________ of this ________ as I’m staring, which means I could ________ when it
transformed. I notice a dark ________ on the ________ that was definitely not
there before, as if someone had ________ some ________ on it. It begins to
________ darker, but I can only see it out of the ________ of my eye. This
____al tree is forcing me to look at it at different ________, so I can’t
watch whatever it’s ________ directly. The spot ________ full black, and
spreads down towards the ________. Just when I ________ I may be able to
________ my eyes, the dark spot opens up like a ________ zipper, and a figure
steps ________ of it. It’s my new ________. She tells me she’s a dryad, and
that I’ve just ________ the first steps towards becoming like her. If she had
________ me this yesterday, I would have ________ to stifle nervous laughter,
and then made my way ________ of there as ________ as ________. But after the
walk I’ve just had, I feel like a ________ new ________, and being part tree
________ doesn’t sound like such a ________ idea anymore.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
Monday, January 4, 2021
Microstory 1531: Trees
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