Tag: Just Because
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In Half-Light
Shadows stretch forward as the the Sun disappears behind the derelict abbey, attempting to reach the trees that mark the perimeter of this now disused estate. The trees are clouded in complete darkness, but the space in-between, the space occupied by the elongating shadows, is bathed in a cooling twilight. An eerie half-light, neither day…
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A Fraction Out Of Step
I woke early with the usual Sunday morning feel… All was calm, quiet, peaceful – actually quite tranquil The sky was overcast and the morning seemed quite dark And the outside world seemed so very far away I checked the time; 7:48 the clock said When I remembered suddenly that I hadn’t altered the time.…
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Saturnlight
Basking in Saturnlight, the comet finally reaches the closest point to the ringed planet that it ever will do so. The ice crystals and rocky formations glisten in the reflected sunlight, from a sun almost one-and-a-half billion kilometres away. Saturn itself seems to hang low in the flimsy atmosphere the comet has created for itself…
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The Art of Deception
In a previous life, in a land and time far, far away, I was a classically trained actor. I tread the boards before there were any boards to be tread. I acted in the midst of a semi-circle stage surrounded by steps that became seats. I was jeered. Celebrated. Heckled. Commanded. Praised. And bruised by…