Tag: Writing
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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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You Never Know
This is a repost. Well, the bit after the introduction is. I will start by saying that because, well, it is, and also because Caitlin’s popped by again and asked that I share her story… again. I said that yesterday’s post was my last one with my Valentine’s collection for this year, which was true,…
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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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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…
