Tag: Missed Opportunities
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2014: Let’s Get This PARTY Started!
DONG! Went the twelfth bell. FIZZLE! Went the final worn-out firework. SIGH! Went I as I settled down into bed shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day. I went to bed early on New Year’s Eve, and had my sleep disturbed by the racket outside the Mansion window. Still, it was soon over, and I…
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NaBloPoMoNaNoWriMo
I was debating whether to join up for NaNoWriMo this month, as a way of kick-starting my book that I keep promising to write. Part of me was geared up for the challenge, but the other two parts were more than dubious about the whole thing. Not the challenge itself – it seems a good…
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Eyes of the Museum
When the lastOf the visitorsLeave The PartyReally starts The ghosts fromThe relicsOf Yesteryear Dance by theRhythm of theirHearts Standing guardEvery night are Two who never miss a thing One was an upstart who tried his bestTo replace his then High King The other, much to his dismay,Is the king him Very Self And every…
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Contract 42
Queenie noticed the bus approaching in the distance, over the brow of the hill. “That’s an old bus” she muttered to herself as she rummaged through the stack of old Lottery tickets and sweet wrappers in her handbag, looking for her bus pass. She didn’t speak aloud, although there was nobody else with her at…