(Thankfully, chaos theory persisted while the mullet went quietly into the good night.) Hal’s easy joke about imaginary numbers – that they are useless, non-existent, empty, silly, or silent – is an illogical conclusion for any mathematician, including a fictional one. Proof had many ...
The party was now turning into a nightmare. He couldn’t explain this away with the excuse it must have been the sleepwalking Then from the lounge area emerged the owner of the bathrobe Dressed in a fancy dress chicken outfit. ©Chris Black. May 9th2019 #Poetry #amwriting When I shuffle...
Quietly. Without another word. In eighteen more months, my broken-hearted Mother followed him. That’s when the dreams started. They weren’t dead, they’d been waiting for me — in a train station, in a grubby apartment, in their old house. Hungry, cold, and helpless. Night after ni...
Sometimes death came quietly. A phantom swooping in and siphoning the last remnant of a soul from one’s body, leaving behind a shell of a person who once was and would never be again. Other times, death decided that dramatics coupled with terror were its preferred method of delivery. Ton...
the 1700s Christmas was celebrated quietly, if at all. In the absence of other festivities, winter ghost stories persisted, according to Henry Bourne, who wrote in 1725 that “nothing is commoner in country places than for a whole family in a winter’s evening to sit ’round the fire and...
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