{"id":9807,"date":"2012-12-16T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9807"},"modified":"2012-12-16T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T03:09:00","slug":"a-rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9807","title":{"rendered":"A rainy day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a bit of a wash, really. I watched the disappointing James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only<\/a> and just hung around the house, still kind of recovering from Friday afternoon. Today, though, my weekly writing group started back up again, at least for a little while, and I cobbled together this:<\/p>\n

When the hurricane came through, the dead wizard came back to life and the ghost hunter was finally released from prison.<\/p>\n

You probably have already heard this story, or at least a part of it. The governors of Eld were quick to classify what they could, to quarrantine the northern hills where the storm did its worst, but the basic facts escaped their net. There are few across the great expanse of worlds who have not heard about the wizard, Dead Man Jack, or about the woman, Maribel, the would-be hunter who was forced to kill her father twice.<\/p>\n

And yet it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a story that deserves to be re-told, I think, and this time told beyond the basic facts. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pretend to any special knowledge; I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on the hills that day, and I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even make planetfall on Eld for another week, by which point Maribel and Jack both would be long gone. I was not called here to investigate their crimes, nor to root out the cause of the still as yet unexplained storm. I was just another constable, young and naive and fresh from basic on Eld\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister moon, Brahms — and yet, as a constable, I did have access to reports I might never have seen otherwise. Reports the governors have long kept secret. I know Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real name, for instance, or at least the one that supposedly brought him back to life, and I think, after all these years, I know where he and his daughter disappeared to. The answers have been there all along on the page. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that so few of us have been encouraged to look at those pages.<\/p>\n

Dead Man Jack. He was called that long before the first time he died, long before he had even registered himself as a wizard. The official term, of course, is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153technomage,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be damned if that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sound even sillier than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wizard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which is what everyone on Eld knew Jack to be. He wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much of one, from all accounts, either not given to show or incapable of it. If it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for his daughter, and the strange circumstances of her birth, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost certain no one would have remembered Jack before the year of the hurricane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then I came home and watched The Stuff<\/a>, which was interesting but also pretty disappointing.<\/p>\n

And that, plus the crossword puzzle and some dreary rain, was my Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a bit of a wash, really. I watched the disappointing James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only and just hung around the house, still kind of recovering from Friday afternoon. Today, though, my weekly writing group started back up again, at least for a little while, and I cobbled together this: When the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14,28,12],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}