IE Chris (FA20)

Preface: If you haven't already, you should check out the previous installments in the series:  Part 1: White Horse and Pestilence    Part 2: Red Horse and War Part 3:  Black Horse and Famine CW:   graphic descriptions, death Pale Horse: The haunting silence was much welcome after hours of hungry screams. Eren dismounted her horse and felt the ground for the first time this wretched night. She shook out her legs and stretched, ridding her body of the tension. As she placed her feet back on the ground, she noticed that the soil beneath her felt very unusual. It almost felt... more fertile ?  Before she could so much as take a breath, a bony arm sprung out from the ground and grabbed her fleshy thigh. Eren could feel herself slipping, so she grabbed her dagger and sliced away at the arm. The bone was uncharacteristically tough, and her blade met its match with the stringy sinew around it. The arm continued to drag her down into the Earth. She strained to look...

Preface: If you haven't already, you should check out the previous installments in the series:  Part 1: White Horse and Pestilence    Part 2: Red Horse and War Black Horse: A sudden pang of hunger struck Eren deep in her stomach. Though this was unlike any hunger she had ever experienced. She glanced up at the night sky, and her heart became filled with dread. The blood-red sky was becoming engulfed by pitch-black darkness.  The people in the village seemed deeply affected by this. She rode on further into the village, accompanying by troubled howls. She ran into her own house, to discover that her cupboards were completely barren. "That's odd," she muttered, "I just  ran to the market yesterday". Then she went back outside and saw what caused the mysterious disappearance.  Famine himself descended upon the town. On his mighty black steed, he carried large sacks of food which he hoarded for himself. He let a deep and sonorous laugh echo throughout the night...

Preface: If you haven't already, you should check out the previous installments in the series:  Part 1: White Horse and Pestilence    Red Horse: As Eren rode into town, an eerie red light enveloped the village. The blood-red sky cloaked the innocent villagers, but that wasn't the only effect she saw. People were irrationally angry with each other, screaming over things that seemed objectively minute. As Eren rode in closer, she noticed that the militia had been assembled. She asked the captain why the group was assembled.  "We're sick and tired of the village over stealing all of our food! We're going to march over and demand that they give it back!" he yelled in a rather uncouth manner. It seemed as though this night was far from over. War was here. War : Blood red light shone ever bright and true It was then that she knew just what to do Author's Note: I thought that it would be really cool to do a series on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, so I deci...

White Horse: The woods were not at all quiet tonight. A local villager, Eren, heard a disturbance. She looked to the sky, and she could tell that they were going to be in for a long night. She looked out to the distance and saw it. She saw the shimmering white mane of the horse, and her heart froze. She knew the irony that that white horse brought. Thought the horse bore a smile demure, its rider was all too impure. Eren, like the others in the village, knew the rider only by his attribute: Pestilence. Eren grabbed her own horse and rode into town, preparing them all for the grim evening they were about to face.  Pestilence: The smell of rotting flesh pierc'd the night sky.  'Twas simply all she could do to not cry.  Author's Note: I thought that it would be really cool to do a series on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, so I decided to make this a four part series, and I started with Pestilence, the Rider of the White Horse. I decided to write the first story as a 100...

  Weekday: Oh boy oh boy oh boy. Alright now what's today? Monday?! Shoot this is going to be a long week. Hmm... alright so I don't need to go to campus today, but I have to practice, a couple Zoom meetings, and I teach today. Alright now homework and more Zoom meetings until midnight. Tuesday???!?!?!?! Oh boy gotta get up early to go to class OH GOD AM I PLAYING IN STUDIO THIS WEEK? Oh okay that studio performance wasn't terrible. More Zoom meetings and homework until midnight. Wednesday?? Hump Day! No campus today either, but I have to practice, attend Zoom meetings, drive a lot, go teach, and come back. Moderate homework. Thursday IT'S FRIDAY EVE is another early morning to go practice and go to class. Then i drive even more and go teach for a couple hours. Then I come home, pass out, and do homework. Friday is Lesson Day! I log on to Zoom where I meet with my major professor and we go over material for my recital! I usually frontload my work so that Fridays after 5...

Grind : As I sat in front of my music stand, I realized that I have so much to do. I have audition tapes due at the end of this month, a prelim competition performance at the end of this month, a recital next month, more audition tapes due at the end of next month. The list goes on and on. I've made my spreadsheets to organize my practice schedule. Every session is detailed down to the half hour at least (some parts of a session are detailed down to the minute). I am being intentional with everything that I do and I understand that refining any ability takes consistent and dedicated effort. I will get better. Just you wait and see.  Dust: "Why am I not better yet?" Author's Note: I decided to write a little story about what I've been experiencing lately. I wanted to write an autobiographical fiction about the mental battle I've been going through. I think that the dichotomy of thought here is important. It's good to grind, but you have to understand that p...

Microfiction: Eager and Anxious Eager: As Chris begins another school year, he feels a sense of excitement. This is his last school year, after all. The exciting prospects of performing a senior recital and applying to graduate school are certainly new endeavors that he is excited to tackle! Plus, the workload of the courses he is taking should be fairly light, as he's just finishing up a few of the final degree requirements that got pushed back for varying reasons! The last year is shaping up to be the most manageable! Chris is surely excited to see all that he will accomplish in the upcoming year as well as find out where all he can attend for grad school! Anxious: crap, there's so much to do! Author's Note: I decided to do two microfictions, a drabble and a six-word story, to illustrate how I feel coming back to school this year! :) I decided to make Anxious shorter because that part of me gets overwhelmed easily so it makes sense for it to be blunt.  (Image: on fire, ho...