Story! "New Day Dawning"

[sonia]

New Day Dawning by Francesca Forrest, asakiyume. Here is her intro, complete with gorgeous photo of a káurë.

The story is filled with enough world-building, ideas, and characters for a novella or a novel. It centers an argument over what's right and ethical, and I kept arguing with the premises after I finished reading. I wanted more, and at the same time perhaps it's perfect as it is, a compressed, unresolved argument just like so much that's unresolved in the world right now.

Comments

That looks delicious.

[jesse_the_k]

Also, thanks for linking to a fascinating person!

What I'm trying to suggest is that we have relationships with all kinds of things of different levels of awareness, and we're generally fine with that. But the more like us something or someone is, the more we seem to want its/their awareness to match ours. Misunderstandings that arise with people very close to us show how much we expect or depend on those close ones' awareness matching ours. But sometimes it doesn't. We say a thing, and to us it's pregnant with meaning and import, and the person we're talking to replies, and we feel they've understood! Their thoughts are running the same way, and their response shows that! Only to discover later that no, they were not thinking in the way we imagined, and furthermore, they had no idea that what we said carried so much weight for us.

Self-Awareness and the Desire to Be Known.
https://asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/995348.html

Re: That looks delicious.

[sonia]

Thanks for pointing that one out - it's right up my alley but I had skimmed it and not gone back to it later. And the conversation in comments is interesting too. I think you and asakiyume would get along well!

[runpunkrun]

Thanks for the rec!

[sonia]

Enjoy!

[silveradept]

A very interesting story, and like many good stories, what it's normally about hides the actual story itself.

[sonia]

Glad you liked it!

[asakiyume]

Sonia, thank you so much for sharing the story! I somehow missed seeing your entry until today! (When I'm reading a bunch of your entries--prompted by your most recent one about the unpleasant work situation...)

I'm really lucky and grateful to have readers who interact with this story exactly as I most hoped.