cobalt

Julia Minutillo

5d

🫸🏻🐍🫷🏻 you know... A rainbow 🌈 snake emoji wouldn't go astray either.....

Indeed

"Cobalt"...although I haven't the faintest clue about just what is going on, the tension ratchets with every line. Very nicely done, Mark! 👏

Thanks Gary!

beautiful

Thanks greg!

Chilling! Love the image too.

Thanks Kate!

Cobalt. What a great sci-fi piece! Colouring and freezing with cobalt and frost.

Marvelous.

Thanks Dean!

This was so atmospheric! Chilling!

Thank you Mara! 😊

You are welcome 🙏🏻🙂

Georgina de Glanville

5d

Hi Mark, I write in a totally different way to you, but I loved your last line 🌹

“Nothing truly leaves — it just changes how it stays.”

I think that is so true. The places we have been, the people we have loved, even tiny little moments we barely noticed at the time, somehow become part of us forever 🌹

Thank you George. It's so true. We journey through life carrying all those moments and traces with us — small and larger ones.

Thanks for such a lovely reflection 😊

Mark, this is fantastic science fiction.

You build tension through and it works beautifully. Every detail the blue dust, shifting particles, rising oxygen levels, and Banks listening to the housing adds another layer of unease.

I especially loved the ending. The frost spreading "like veins" transforms the phenomenon into something that feels almost alive. Quiet, precise, and deeply unsettling. Excellent work.

Thank you so much, Monica!

I don’t normally write stories or prose, and haven’t for a while now, but this was really fun to put down on paper.

I’m really pleased that sense of unease has come through. I wanted it to be short piece, but a little unsettling. A bit like en media res in a narrative form , rather than film.

So pleased you liked it.

Thanks for the wonderufl reading too ♥️

Strong work.