Tag: Creations
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The Unicorn Challenge: Paperwork
“Gordon, have you seen the recipe book for the formula to the new scent?” “It was on the windowsill just before… ” Gordon glanced over to the window, then back at Eunice, the Quality Control Manager, who’d just walked into the Development Suite, bringing a hurricane with her. They both ran over to the window…
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Puppets of Time
The ensemble sat motionless. Two minutes until curtain call. Lines not learned, strings not stretched, wires not connected. Frozen not by stage fright, but by design, they all faced forward. The heavy red velvet curtains gathered as they began to rise. The audience settled, sitting in an expectant silence. Time to begin. Four hours later,…
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A Bubble
Apologies, but no apologies. This post is a bit ‘chain maily’, but with good intent. I’m presuming everyone’s heard of the Butterfly Effect, where if a butterfly flaps her wings in one part of the world, a few weeks later, another part of the world experiences a hurricane. That’s the kind of thing I’m hoping…
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Shelter
They thought they’d made the right choice in sheltering in the arched doorway of St. Lestill’s church. But as the spire rotated into a clock tower, the stained-glass windows folded in on themselves, and huge gothic turrets grew out of each corner of the cold stone structure, they realised the error they’d made. The rain…
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Thomasina’s Vigil
Thomasina has been at it again… posing for another classic looking painting. This time, it’s the turn of Valkyrie’s Vigil, by Edward Robert Hughes. Here’s how the original painting looks: No artwork is safe, where Thomasina’s concerned. Flattery is the best form of imitation, as she likes to think.
The Mansionic Perspective 