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    The Creative Process
    The Creative Process
    The Creative Process
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    The Creative Process

    By Amy Parker

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    "Where do you get your ideas?" A simple question, but when you blink and find yourself crouching in the Martian dust, or staggering under the weight of new-found wings, the answers are far from simple.
    A short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmy Parker
    Release dateMay 23, 2013
    ISBN9781301462827
    The Creative Process
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    Amy Parker

    Amy Parker is the author of several short stories including The Creative Process, Bug House and The Hundredth Year of the War. Her work can be found on Smashwords and Amazon.com.

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      The Creative Process

      By Amy Parker

      Copyright 2013 Amy Parker

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      It’s cold out here. That shouldn’t be possible.

      The sun’s so bright. Brighter than on Earth. At the base of the mountain, I can see farmers, scratching away at the red dirt with their long tools. They’re tall, these Martians. Skinny. I can’t tell what color they are; the sunlight leaves nothing but dark silhouettes.

      None of this is real, of course. It’s not even original. If I think too hard, I can see how it’s made of clichés. Too much Bradbury, too many science fiction movies. I suspect, if I walked down there, they’d look remarkably like Grays.

      I’m still cold.

      I don’t know what would happen if I walked down there. If I stood up, left the rust-stained dust and scrubby violet vegetation (purple’s the prevalent color of the plants here, much like green on Earth), and followed the winding trail to the bottom. If I said, Hello.

      I don’t know if they’d understand me. I don’t know if I could leave.

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