vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
basin 🏞️

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

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[marycatelli]

A basin of water spread before him, its banks far too even to be a natural pool. Coils of mist rose over it, like ghosts of newborns.
Marcus flew. Mist whirled a little with his passage. The banks ahead rose up to vanish into thick tangles of vines and trees.

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

"South Pole-Aitken Basin is the largest impact basin on the Moon. Furthermore, it is also the oldest, dating back to the pre-Nectarian epoch, and offers us the best evidence as to conditions on the Moon shortly after its formation."

Although Rand was usually a meticulous note-taker, that description was so awe-inspiring that he was captivated by the image. Only some time later, when he was reviewing his notes, did he realize that he had a complete gap right when Dr. Ayles was talking about Aitken.