Tag: Re-writing
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Cute Critter Friday: Beaks!
Durn dun. Don’t go in the water. Imagine the scene. You’re floating in the Lake, merrily minding your own business. Trying to get a shut eye or possibly two, dozing on a rather cool Winter’s afternoon. Durn dun. See it before you go swimming. You feel a presence approaching. Nonchalantly you pretend to ignore it,…
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Catching Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (1725 – 1798). Ish. Picture the scene. It’s the mid-eighteenth century. We’re in Italy; Venice, actually. The Carnival is coming to its close. Noble folk (and lesser-noble for that matter!) are all partying like it’s 1999. All are dressed in elaborate clothing, wearing stunning full masks, some with head-dresses made out of the…
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Valentine’s Day set to move
Talks are taking place with the board of the International Allocation and Reallocation of Important and Strategic Dates Consortium (IRIS, previously known as ROSE: the Reallocation Of Some Events group, and before that HYACINTH: Ha! Yet Another Card Initiative Now Thought Historic) for the date of St Valentine’s Day to be moved. St Valentine of…
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Aphorodíta of Phoenicia
Aphorodíta, Cast in marble Watches through the years Yearning, Waiting, For Phoenicia, Her land to reappear One Phoenician, Her Phoenician, Adonis, She waits for too But cast in marble She waits forever For that’s All she can do. Behind the marble The story’s different, They live on Forever more Even in the Underworld, even if…
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Storm Point
Between the rain and through the wind, the lightning illuminates the horizon. Low cloud is coming inland covering the Moon yet allowing splintered shards of bright moonlight to shine through. The usual sandy beach completely covered by a swarming mass of murky and cold-and-dark seawater. The jagged rocks, slowly starting to fade to invisibility with…
The Mansionic Perspective 