13 Works in Desert Keith Week 2018
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the dirt in which our roots may grow by heartattacked
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
15 Jul 2018
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a dissertation on sand and all its properties, written by a lonely desert boy.
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The Garrison is behind him, along with all of his hopes and dreams, keeping with it his shattered heart. Ahead of him lies nothing but two hundred square miles of a barren wasteland, a dirty old shack, and survival.
Maybe he’s going a little mad, but without anyone around to tell him otherwise, he can’t quite say for sure. All he knows is that throwing himself into making some kind of survivable life out here softens the deep wound in his heart that likes to smart and burn in the night, and the sense of accomplishment in repairing the old shack eases the bone deep loneliness that’s hung over him like a shroud since he left the Garrison.
The little dandelion watches his half-crazed repairs all the while, as indifferent to it all as it is the mouldy old foam mattress it’s taken root in.
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Everything was wrong. Shiro had been a fixture in Keith’s life for years; Keith owed him everything. But now he's gone and Keith has to follow his instincts into the expansive void of the desert, that wild unknown, in the hope that what he’s sensing isn’t a figment of his imagination but something real.
Begins with Shiro and Keith’s first meeting and goes all the way through Keith’s journey in the desert to finding him once more. Inspired by Desert Keith Week.
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- Part 3 of From the Desert to Outer Space
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A series of poems for desert Keith week, focusing on Keith's search for answers after the Kerberos mission, and the way inhospitable, hard places can offer stark clarity and refining fire:
"When it storms, you get the sense something is out there
purring like a wildcat in the desert. Maybe you’re going mad,
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Keith takes the bike out to watch a meteor shower. As he watches the night sky, he can't help but think of Shiro and how he's somewhere out there. Seeing the same stars Keith is.
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- Part 2 of Desert Keith Week 2018
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During his year alone in the desert, Keith ponders life, death, what it means to have a purpose, and how swiftly things can change without warning. He also encounters birds, bugs, and bewildered 7-11 employees.
It's a time of flux, suspension, and adjustment. He reflects on what defines him, and what is just peripheral.
One chapter for each day of Desert Keith Week 2018
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A sandstorm interrupts Keith's day to day life in the desert. It's a good day to stay in and rest.
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- Part 1 of Desert Keith Week 2018
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sunburn in my eyes (i've been looking up) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
08 Jul 2018
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Another thing people don’t often understand: the desert is a wild and unpredictable place. One minute it could be a beautiful, sunny day, and the next moment it’s caught in a downpour.
Keith felt like maybe there was a desert living inside him.
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A collection of Keith’s time alone in the desert.
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The desert was already a difficult place to live, but it was even worse when your entire world had been shaken to its core. For Desert Keith Week 2018
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And yet, that had been the way of the desert since he had fled here months before--strange signs that pulled his nerves to breaking, but never quite did. Until now. This was his breaking, it seemed.
For Desert Keith week 2018.
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Because there was nothing normal about this storm.
It wasn’t the no-problem-wait-it-out kind of haboob. No, this thing started at ground level and billowed seven or eight hundred feet high. The cloud had now swallowed the red sunset behind it, casting an eerie deep red glow over everything. It looked like the kind of cloud that would precede a giant, hostile spaceship. A cold sweat broke out on Keith’s body.
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He makes a project of forgetting. He pours himself into inconsequential goals. He gives himself over to things that only make a modicum of difference around the shack, turning it into a Shack, like a capital letter gets it one stretch closer to being a home.
(The only person Keith’s ever been able to call a home is somewhere orbiting the freezing expanse around Pluto’s moon, lost to everyone other than the stars.)
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Martie works at a health food store on Highway 85 near the edge of the Sonora Desert. Nothing much worth talking about ever happens there- well, at least not until He comes in: the devastating Angel of Sonora.
Mystery and misery surround the young man and Martie is finally going to get the chance to get closer to the enigma, but at a cost.
Because, of course, danger is drawn to the Angel, too.