Scientific precision

Visitto do your own 55!

‘It is…how you say…the tree of youth.’ Professor Korzgy felt moved to tears. His last emotion before the bullet killed him.

‘Sorry old chap.’ Lord Rundles bit into the plucked apple but vomited and fall down dead.

Wiping the sick away, Professor Korzgy, said, ‘Apologies, it is…a tree of life’.

Random Word: Gardening

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So cough and plough don't sound the same?

 

 

He died they say at noon
in ways deserving a tune.
A common hero, not zero
who misread that he was to lead
when wrote was lead guaranteed.

 

Random Word: Orthography

 

 

 

 

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Technorati Tags: Misreading,Bullets,Civil Unrest,Oppression

Getting ahead of yourself

So let me get this straight, you let me drive the truck because of my week’s experience and then because of one little screw-up, I’m fired!

Random Word: Tenderfoot

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Technorati Tags: Accident,Crane,Aeroplane

Showcase Wednesday #6

This is a Twitter story that caught my eye 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.

DeadEndFiction

Each comma was a slash with a blade. The gaps between each word, final gasps. Brackets, clasped to the throat and crushing. A death sentence.

12:50 PM Jun 8th via web

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Technorati Tags: Horror,Pun

Celtic Dreams

I was at a strange work meeting yesterday     (training to do work that the new Government is to abolish!) and we did a ice-breaker. One part of which was to say something unusual about yourself. So I mentioned that I write daily nano (140 characters)and micro (50 words) stories and poems. This impressed them (and me) I then explained I was currently reimagining a traditional Celtic story (The Sons of Tuirenn) with the aim of adapting it for a radio play they were even more impressed and I was surprised that they were impressed because I knew the slow hard work of small steps this involved.

Basically most traditional stories as published are neither good literature or good oral tales ready for the telling - you write them very differently. Nor are they related back to the actual society that produced them so they often lack nuances that would enrich them. So I rewrite from one version and then check this against other known versions to build up the most dramatic three act version.

This is then checked against umpteen books about the Celts to see if this affects the story. For example Celts had a very layered society so the amount of the blood-fine paid (if you killed a man you paid a fine to the family to avoid a blood-feud) depended on honour-status. Also the decisions of this process laid more with professional lawsayers then the chiefs who could not make law. If you know The Sons of Tuirenn these are very relevant to how the story could be told.

Then on the way home, an idea poked in, which that I could re-imagine a whole range of Celtic stories but in two versions- one as drama-literature and the other as a retelling version. So at a stroke I would enrage the traditionalists, the nationalists and the odd wandering Bard. Must be a winner!

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Technorati Tags: Book idea,Celtic Myths,Bardic Tales,Being a writer

Love found lost by moonlight

‘Your…a Wolf.’ Len of the Fen said with as much dignity as could be mustered with trousers dangling around ankles.

The Wolf growled. ‘And there's me thinking you were getting warmed up for me. But I’m a man most nights.’

‘You are!’

The tears falling said love not dinner called.

Random Word:Splish Splash

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A perfect night

It was in that brief moment before her twelfth strike that Belinda regretted not spending more time in checking the condition of her panties

Random Word:Cursory

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Technorati Tags: Art Frahm,Bowling,Panties