Tag: Life
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Chamaeleon: A Rogue Planet
You don’t really think of the early Seventeenth Century and connect it to a multi national corporation. Well, I don’t, and I find myself thinking of the early Seventeenth Century quite a lot! However, back in the day, there were one or two multi national corporations in existence. The British had the East India Trading…
Tom
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Swim
A post for Illustration Friday. The theme for this week is Swim… although I’ve gone for the option of illustrating the swimmer, rather than the word swim. Slight difference, but in the same area. Water! In a not too strange land, not too far away, there is a species of humans who live in the…
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A bit of extra colour
So, with all of the excitement of my mini little blogging writing experiment now underway, with the correct cat out of the correct bag (and the other cat wanting desperately to get out of the other one), voting underway and votes already coming in, I can have a rest. Actually, no, I can’t. I can…
Tom
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The Plummet
Hoisted what seemed like thousands of feet in the air, we dangled; me and my two lady friends, one on each side. I had no control over what was to happen next, it was up to one of them. They had the power to release us… to free us… to make us drop. I just…
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Existence
The room was quiet. The lighting was good; the TV off. Papers needed to be sorted… older ones destroyed, newer ones filed. That was where the problem was. The filing. Not my filing; THE filing. The music system, unplugged, powered up. White noise, increasing in volume, filled the room. If I wasn’t mistaken, I could…