The Infinite Lives of Bug

So, awhile ago I wrote this short story about Bug, a girl who was born from… actually, I don’t know, but she’s not just a regular girl.  As her introduction goes:

I live alongside the riverbeds that have never been touched by human hands. In lives past I have belonged to a man with no ears and a child with no dreams. I have been taken in by a snake with one tooth and an owl with three thoughts. I have an abundance of days but a drought of wishes.

I will die inside a poppy seed, in every life, for I am Bug.

And then she goes on to tell the reader about how she met Rabbit, and how they became friends.  Well, I meant to write more but never got around to it, so that story just sort of sat around until yesterday, I wrote another story about Bug.  I haven’t finished an actual short story in ages, so it felt wonderful to finish this new Bug story.  I actually really like it, too.  And that got me thinking… what if I wrote a novelette about Bug and her infinite lives?  So, that’s my new goal.  It won’t be really a consecutive story line, more like a collection of stories about her, the people and animals she meets, and eventually… well, I won’t tell you that because it’ll ruin the ending 😛

So, that’s what I’ll be doing.  I’m taking a break from poetry until April (yeah, I lost the Pre-NaPo thing, but whatever.  It was just practice anyway).  And I’ll be writing about The Infinite Lives of Bug.

 

P.S.  Wasn’t this supposed to be a strictly-poetry blog? Oh well.