Original drabble: Spiraling Inward, Spiraling Outward [Julian, none]
Title: Spiraling Inward, Spiraling Outward Author: celandineb Fandom: none - original fic Characters: Julian (OC) Rating: general Length: 100 words Summary: Spirals fascinate Julian. Note: Written for jelazakazone's prompt, "spiral".
As a young child Julian was simultaneously fascinated and terrified by the spiraling descent of his bathwater into the drain. Would he, could he, be sucked down with it? He knew he was too big to fit in the inch-wide hole, but when he put a finger to it, he felt the tug.
The photograph of the Milky Way in his sixth-grade science textbook turned his thoughts outward. It, too, spiraled, but the text explained that the earth's sun was well out on one arm. Julian found his imagination caught by the vision of the earth reaching out into space.