The Love Machine

Random Word: The Latest

For Harry, it was always the new, never the old.  But the new had to be novel, not a rehash so not for him a series of blondes; it was instead a kaleidoscope of ever changing forgotten beauties.  But Mary was unique, not as the newest, but as the last.

Why Radio Killed the Video Star

Random Word: Phone it in

‘We want all you folks out there to give us a call after these public announcements.’
           ‘What’s the morons wasting my time with today - the price of pigs or what lies got their knuckle scraping ancestors through Ellis Island?’
           ‘Er… the mike’s still live.’
           ‘Ah…yes…folks give us … ’

Old pirates swing

My Six Word Saturday

Describing your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words. This is what others say.

 

 

Motorway crash survivor but their fault!

The Power of Music

Random Word: Closer to Fine
‘Did you hear that racket. Bunch of Ellen’s if you ask me.’
           ‘Mum, stop it.’
           ‘Why? Its not Christian.’
           ‘Mum, what if I asked you to buy the Indigo Girls CD this Christmas for me and Mary.’
           ‘Fine with me, but why am I buying a present for your lodger?’

When legends end

Random Word: You People

The time of the great gathering had arrived. Yet Backu was uneasy, the great bears who roar away the winter had not returned and many spoke of the new gods who came out of the sky saying you were the people lost. He looked at the Bble manyoule and wondered.

American Indians

Random word: Charity

Even blindfolded, the strangeness of the lips should have told him but he had got over that bakwas years ago. He liked musicals but was no friend of Dorothy yet this made him into such a champak.
       ‘Bhai ease up’, his sister laughed, ‘we’ll get more for charity this way.’