Tag: Surreal Reality
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Red Sky at Night
The Mansion. 2AM. Strange lights in the skies again. Glowing embers dissolve away But not the remnants of another day… The Sun – it set hours ago – The Moon’s about, but its light’s low. And the Moonlight’s white, not this eerie red that awoke me as I lay in bed.An eerie silence crept aroundThe…
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The Valentine Nebula
Hidden deep within the Quadrans Muralis constellation lies this tiny tiny nebula. Tiny by nebula standards, but still immense where the Universe is concerned. Some of those stars are hundreds of times larger than our Sun, and they are all light years apart from each other , so you can imagine the size. Made up…
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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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Just Being Tomanova
Hi. I’m Tomanova. I’m sitting here, well, reclining actually, in my chaise longue. I don’t need to do anything else. I just sit here and be. I ooze. I drape. I put the oo in swoon. Well, you do when in my presence, truth be told. I pretend not to notice. Please try to control…
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And they say romance is dead
Old Mal creaked and groaned as he leant forward in his dusty old chair. He was bent completely double with his arm out-stretched as far as he could, but he still couldn’t reach it. He muttered something inaudible. “What’s that you say?” Ornelle, his wife, glanced up and over at him from her dusty chair.…