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The book sat and waited - misery was worth a chapter or two or even a story whilst happiness merely a line, a metaphor, perhaps a picture. The reader took and unknowingly gave, for the book drank life when an idle hand or eye was caught. Today, it drains you.
Random Word: Tantalize
Welcome to Cliché Buster an occasional feature. Take one cliché, your senses and make five new phrases.
A family is like a good dinner-each flavour tells its own story.
A bad massage are fingers doing solos rather then harmonies.
When you arrange scent, as with colour think of balance, so you are taken to a single place rather then a world tour.
Let talk grow, not cut down by those with the sharpest blade.
A band who’s lost their conductor is all noise and no tune.
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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
Describing your life (or something) this Saturday in a phrase using just six words. This is what others say on Show My Face.
Son has hitched safely to Morocco **
** He’s hitching from London to Casablanca with friends to raise money to support school programs in Africa. Naturally the wife had decided he’s going to become a missing person news item and will not relax until the homecoming. Ahem, I was only tracking him via the charity website for her sake.
