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Jay Brausch
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Mermaids

43 deviations
Literature

Awakening, Pt. 1 of 10.

            Somewhere in the empty outlands . . .            A large dust devil blew rapidly across a dry field, stealing topsoil with each relentless spiral, before moving into the open pasture and disappearing from sight over a distant hill with its priceless treasure.  Ernest Cranway, the owner of the area of parched Earth, slowly shook his head in disgust as the uncanny thief scattered his precious soil all about where he did not want it.  Soon afterward, it diminished - perhaps to do its random dirty work somewhere else, and he turned his old truck onto an adjacent field where his son and other farmhand were waiting for him to return a

Sparklers

36 deviations
Literature

Displacements, Pt. 1 of 5.

          The evening sun's feeble rays pierced the gnarled intermingling branches and variegated autumn foliage of weather-beaten trees and wild shrubs in various blade-like shafts.  Intercepting them were two people as eager to catch their little remaining warmth as the inevitably doomed flying insects of the waning season did.  Both were close friends, like the night and day joined by a similar twilight, but the complexity of nature's structure and elements around now increasingly countered their desire to be amongst them, challenging any familiar perceptions of the area.          Both moved up a gradual slope of the monotonous rolling t

Sylphs

26 deviations
Literature

Dione's Talent, 1 of 6.

                Dione Teslin dreaded the trip over to her rich uncle's estate, not because she disliked him or his wife, but because she wished to be with her parents, who were politely getting her out of the way before leaving on their vacation.  She also heard from time to time of the notorious and often outstanding reputations of her three older cousins staying there and reasoned they were either spoiled, plain wild, or both.  Furthermore, she was just a quiet young girl going to a markedly different and big place obviously mysterious to her in many ways.  No doubt, she would have to manage the new circumstances as best as possible to her

Family Feud

19 deviations
Literature

Anomalies, Pt. 1 of 4.

          A localized area of the earth trembled with a rare violence that very few living things on its surface had previously experienced.  The place was forested only over the last few thousand years and showed effects more of a much different kind of geologic restlessness.  Thus, the quake was additionally frightening and uncanny to the recent inhabitants who settled in it for security and solitude for many of their generations -- a sure reminder that nobody anywhere on the planet was absolutely safe from hostile elements in a chosen environment.          The tumultuous event was brief but very powerful.  The stable platform of the regi

The Old One

36 deviations
Literature

Trespassers, Pt. 1 of 7.

          How often is it that just when everything that is apparently possible to be learned or discovered about something, whatever it may be, that the something reveals a new characteristic, which in turn opens up all new mysteries about it -- to destroy all previously known concepts and laws about it?  Better said, how often does the unknown revamp the known by further or accidental exploration, and by how much then?  No doubt, the examples are many from atoms to galaxies, the seen and unseen, and the natural and supernatural, all of which are interdependent on each other in a multitude of ways.  Thus, the unknown with all its countless e

Ri's Sanctuary

31 deviations
Literature

The Veterans, Pt. 1 of 5.

                                           Prologue:          The brilliant white flashes were no longer visible in the roiling blue-glowing fog to professor Stanson and the others outside the mayhem.  The strange Carboniferous forest, the ri, and all else inside turned into a vaporous state, like ectoplasm, and merged with it at a central point, the unknown origin and source of the primeval world, before finally condensing into an energetic mass.                                                       --  From "Ri's Sanctuary, Reunion."         *               *               *               *               *          The exotic female

The Source

54 deviations
Literature

Terminations 497, Pt. 1 of 6.

          It was evening, and the small class of select university students were anxiously waiting for the professor to give his last address and final instructions to them for the semester.  After passing the long difficult coarse, they would "gloriously" graduate and attempt to take on the burdens and demands of their competitive world -- the world of the late 21st century.  They were under the most pressure now because they were about to be given their most challenging assignment -- that of committing an assassination.          Their lecturer, Mr. Calvin Beck, entered a side entrance to the classroom.  He was a tall, slender vampiry-look

Making the Grade

19 deviations
Looming Large

Artworks - Lightside

130 deviations

Artworks - Darkside

226 deviations
Literature

Time Bombs, Pt. 1 of 11.

          The twenty-eighth century was an exciting time of discovery and exploration for the human species.  In many ways, it was similar to past ages, having its problems and challenges, but unlike them, the human race functioned as an efficient cooperating unit overall, building upon its knowledge and reaching throughout much of the solar system -- even within itself to define its every structure, capability, and origin while pressing into the unknown.  Reaching into the new frontiers brought forth often surprising revelations and findings, such that new history making was almost routine and trivial but o

The Ambulite Lure

29 deviations

Permanent Residents

39 deviations

Photography -- Day

21 deviations
Enduring the Deep Freeze

Photography -- Night

238 deviations
Literature

Victim of the Ice, Pt 1 of 4.

                  Winter always seems like a long season but for Warren Johnson, it was a time of mixed emotions, paradoxical feelings, and always more physical strife.  It was this season that was prevalent in most months of the year at his location and the one he had to defend himself the most from.  Because of its length, spring and fall were barely recognizable, and the summer just a short reprieve from its oppressive cold wrath.  He was a man of the North and usually a dweller in the darkness thus.  However, not all was bad or negative to him.  It couldn't be.  Many elements and characteristics in this time were also beautiful, awesome,

Victim of the Ice

4 deviations
Literature

Just Like Magic, Pt 1 of 5.

                                                          Darwin Merlock emerged quickly from the large carpeted bedroom and slammed the door in anger. He walked past expressionless paintings on his way down the brightly illuminated hall, but his wife was not intimidated and equally upset.  She repeated the loud procedure to the door and followed him fr

Just Like Magic

5 deviations
Literature

Victim Four, Pt. 1 of 6.

          Ingrid came into her room late and found her pretty roommate in the tranquil state of a deep sleep.  She had established a romantic affair with a wild and adventurous man recently, and on this night had delved well into his warm private life.  She wanted to probe even deeper, but when the 2:00am hour arrived, she decided that she had been caressed and intimately touched enough for another night.  She thus had an agreeable smile on her face, one of some erotic victory, and would surely have an interesting story to tell the easily envious slumbering roommate tomorrow.       

Victim Four

6 deviations
Literature

Defenders, Pt. 1 of 4.

          Doug and Maggie were a young couple struggling to form a bond in which to make themselves stronger.  They had recently met and were enhancing the chemistry of their first encounters to better understand each other.  Both had strong yearnings for passion, desire, and affection, but the precise potential depth of their love for each other was unknown.  Something was wrong.          Both of them were finally where they wanted to be to solve the mystery and fuse their differences -- alone in a tropical paradise.  They hoped their stay at the enchanted place would fulfill their new relationship.  They were beyond being mere friendly ac

Defenders

4 deviations
Literature

Outstanding Measures, Pt. 1 of 4.

          Kenneth Douglas was gazing out at the wondrous night sky on warm August night when his gorgeous wife emerged from the backside of his spacious house and asked, "What's wrong with you?  You haven't been acting like your normal self lately."          He turned around as she approached him and replied, "It's the passage of the Ultimate Life Law by the Supreme Court, House, and Senate in Washington that bothers me so much.  I can't understand how our country, the pinnacle of humanity, can accept it."          "It hasn't been accepted as law just yet, honey.  You and the rest of the Elite Judicial Committee will be the determining en

Outstanding Measures

4 deviations
Literature

Turning Points, Pt. 1 of 6.

          Jason Roberts arrived at a time in his life where a climax between the forces of good and evil were about to occur in strange, often unrecognizable ways to thus require very important decisions to be made.  A moral crossroads was found practically at random, and he wondered if he had a "guardian angel" somehow, as had been stated by other believing people.          While seated on a beach alone, he examined his physical surroundings first:  a mostly clear sky, the warm air without wind, and the blanket soft to all better allow such critical thinking.  He was thus in a circumstance to best contemplate the best way of life to go, gi

Turning Points

6 deviations