Showing posts with label Observations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Observations. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 October 2013

A muse on concrete

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Grey nothingness…bland chaos…dull to the eye. Yet touch and call back the long dead of seas now fiery sand or with soft lips taste its sour tears. Bend down and smell the heat of summer when rain prayed for.

To us Mayflies it remains unheard as tomb silence.
 
 
 
 
 
 








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Friday, 20 August 2010

What do you think of the infidel question?





The castle was dark,no flames flickered by gate or arch. The knights hesitated until one said, ‘Are you sure they said, drinks at eight?’

Random Words: Drinks

Friday, 23 July 2010

In solitude or in merriment shall I listen

Listening

 

Mark looked at the mirror and finally said, ‘Hi, God.’

His wife sighed, and dug around for his pills, but God made sure they weren’t found.

 

Random Word:Omniscient 

 

 

 


Wednesday, 7 July 2010

So both man and woman were of God

Merged Gender

 

 

 

Josh was tired of waiting. He had lived by the good book so knew, he deserved the righteous place ahead of women folk. They did their best but as the Word said, they kept a man from getting on. But when he saw God, Josh knew he were in trouble.

 

 

 

Random Words: Too many girls


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Tuesday, 15 June 2010

How to write flash fiction

Confused

 

‘To create the story’s ending you randomly select a place, and an emotion. Their opposites become the opening scene. Then select an animal for character development – where would someone like a rabbit take us? Now imagine what transforms this character between—’

‘Sir, this isn't the Physics class is it?’

 Random Word: Get Creative


Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Bathing is the new rock and roll

Sento

 

‘It is not right to hide away. What is wrong in bathing with friends the old way?’

Aiko sighed, it was just like papa to refuse a home tub.

 

Random Word: Misoneism

 


Thursday, 6 May 2010

Before your birth

Baby Falling‘It is a most irregular request,’  said the custodian.

‘Why? Isn’t it written that our Lord choose his mother?  Women pick the egg or the sperm now so why not us the mother?’ The unborn waited for a reply.

The custodian, smiled and let him fall, thinking, he’ll be trouble.

Random Word: Mother


Speeches we wanted to miss

Bad Speech

 

 

‘We stand on the boat of life as it flies into the future where not even the birds of trouble will be roasted.’

‘Hmm, that’s working for me.’

 

Random Word: Catachresis

 


Friday, 30 April 2010

Sticking to your principles

Language snob

 

Harold stood his ground.

‘You cannot say ‘ain’t’. It has no grammatical basis even for Americans.’

‘I as the gun, me can say what I like.’

Random Word: Grammatolatry

 


Saturday, 24 April 2010

I’d love a scrabble snack

Eating words

It had been a difficult day, the truffle had not tasted as it sounded - bitter rather then smooth. Why was he eating words that were visual, he was a word waffler not an image imbiber.  He longed to find Boeuf Bourguignon, which was as solid and satisfying as it sounded.

Random Word: Eating my words


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Thursday, 15 April 2010

Try listening

bored teen 

'I tell ya, the Whore of Rome, tainted ya Christmas with the worship of false idols...'

Jacob just nodded; pa was off on one of his rants.

 

Random Word: Babylon

 


Saturday, 3 April 2010

Dance, Dance, Dance till they drop

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They are chandeliers, gold gilt stairs in great halls, clothes from the bloody fingers of seamstress blinded by candlelight. Living to a dead music that sways, rises and falls as they will.  We dance by the fire of the night, hips shaking and caressing for the flesh of the willing.

Random Word: Dancing at the revolution


Friday, 2 April 2010

The big lie

failures

Tommy let his passions go over the years knowing the next one would be a winner even when the house, the children, and now his wife was lost.


 Random word: Will-o'-the-wisp




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Thursday, 18 March 2010

When you know it won’t work


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Little men are rarely dangerous they can be humoured. Its the big men in a small body that cause problems. Wanting power, he was the worse.

Random Word: Relationship

Thursday, 11 March 2010

The end of the road

Random Story ImageRandom Word: Going to the movies

When we die, it isn't a film that plays but a song – it's harmony and melody dependent on the voices we helped or harmed as we live

Random Word: Going to the movies

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

The first word begins the story

Random Story Image

He looked at the white page, and from it smiled an old bitter woman haunted by her past betrayal. A lover long dead,  never let her forget as he sat by her bed each night. But for peace both must forgive. 
His pen moved, and the dream became your story.

Friday, 25 September 2009

When does God approve of Kissing?


Random Story ImageTwo teenage friends in the 1940’s
Fredrick : Why can’t boys kiss?
Harold: They can.
Fredrick: What boys kiss boys?
Harold: Yuk no. Its wrong in the eyes of God.
Fredrick I thought God loved you?
Harold : He does.
Fredrick: So if you kiss and love, He must approve?

Friday, 4 September 2009

A Song to live by

 

Random Story Image Only her face shone in the stage lights, the moon to the audience's stars as recording lenses sparkled back. Her note broke the silence of death to summon hope. Out of the darkness came the answer, a deep despair to her joy—both voices merging in a hymn to life.