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Laénara is an agglutinative, head-final language with a rigid SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) word order. Its sound is defined by a rule-based pitch accent system, and its grammar contains several unique features that reflect the culture of its speakers. It is a numeral classifier language, in base-60.
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This is the current lexicon / dictionary for Laénara.
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This series is a deep dive into specific elements of Laénara’s grammar, focusing on specific topics in an easy to understand way. This article focuses on the massive topic of verbs and their many forms.
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Lately I’ve found my thoughts lost deep in time.
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This series is a deep dive into specific elements of Laénara’s grammar, focusing on specific topics in an easy to understand way.
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Ricky Marlowe
| writing stories and creating worlds since 1986
Sea Glass in the Gray is now available on Kindle!
For seventeen-year-old delinquent Alex, life in riverside town of Sugarsand Shores is a blur of gray. His days are spent skateboarding on the sun-baked streets, getting into fights and navigating his toxic relationship. But when a visitor named Natalie arrives for one week, she’s like finding a rare piece of sea glass in the sand— a vibrant splash of color in his monotonous life.
Over six days Natalie is immersed in his world of fire pit parties, small town politics and shared secrets, forging a connection deeper and more intimate than either of them has ever known, burning like a supernova in the cosmos of their lives. But this bond has an expiration date, and the end of the week looms over them. When the supernova inevitably fades, what is left of those who witnessed it?