Lee is three years old
ear stud for his birthday gift
but smile kept inside.
He’s knows to be a brave little
soldier. He ain’t a sissy.
Lee is twenty-one,
a bullet wound drains away
the smile kept inside -
a touch the first and last
he wanted for his birthday.
Random Word: Delivery
Describing your life (or something) onat the moment of writing on a Saturday in a phrase using just six words.
Hmm, adapt Celtic myth for radio?**
**I have a book of Celtic stories that the cover describes as …accessible…masterful storytelling…entertaining style. Well I don’t know what book they read but it’s full of phrases like…grim visage…smiled sneeringly or dialogue like… is that not a proud warrior who cross the plain. It reads like respectable elderly Victorian gentleman trying to loosen the bowtie and get down with the naughty nineties crowd. As bad as your dad trying to say that rap has a beat like his old glam rock bands. I’m critical from two perspectives. One is that I do live story-telling and it lacks this mediums energy and immediacy. The other is that it lacks filmic quality in the writing, in that it creates images in the readers mind through sensory hooks and vivid characterisation. So I’m playing with the idea of taking the well known story The Sons of Tuirenn and using the visual possibilities of radio to retell the story. My initial idea is to have narrator commenting and reacting to the formal story that dissolve back to the “real” events he experienced . The challenge is to give this ‘current time’ story its own dramatic arc. I was thinking of a bardic competition to the King where they compete to tell the story that puts him in a good light. The narrator who stares at you from the above picture is at the top table remembering the “real”events.
‘We can’t afford a baby.’
‘Oh, so the breadwinner has spoken.’
But he loved her so backed off saying, ‘Let’s try, after all they taste good.’
Random Word: Atrabilious
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Pouring the coffee over the tranquilliser, Kate thought great body, his liver alone should yield 5k.
Random Word: Caffeine
Note this has become the seed of a much longer story called Warm heart,cold hand
Looking at the picture, Granny Sue knew the business was in trouble. What she wouldn’t give to be freeclimbing, with some dirt under her fingers and the sweat just rising. Instead, she was stuck here with her dozy grandson. ‘Right, make the rope packing instructions work, or clear your desk.’
Random Word: Explicit
This is a microstory that caught my eye in Twitterland this week. Click on the heading if you want to visit the author’s Twitter Site. Or the post timestamp to go direct to the story.
I loved him but he couldn’t look past the scars. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. I hold his eyes now. He can’t stop looking at me.
11:46 PM May 22nd via web
