and giddy at the prospect of an unexplored playground. WhereasThe Show For Young Menis actually a display of emotional regulation (at one point Synge suddenly started getting angry and banging the set which felt needlessly awkward and required Alfie to give him some biscuits to calm him down) a...
I can sound encouraging through my words, such as “We recommend using this method for configuration”. Sometimes, I can sound cautious and be didactic, “Wear protective glasses when operating this machine”. I can also be someone who tells how the information must be accessed. Or I can ...
However, Cage can set a tone, has neo-noir down, and recently placed in 100-word flash-fic competition. One hundred words. 41.7% glue. Everyone, I include myself, needs to be mindful of the author trap of glue words. That’s us, being sloppy. How much more BAM for the word count...
After a great interval of time he became aware that he was near the lower edge of the snow. Below, down what was now a moon-lit and practicable slope, he saw the dark and broken appearance of rock-strewn turf He struggled to his feet, aching in ...
I have no words for these amazing illustrations of bad behavior. They still give me the creeps. As long as I continue to receive messages like this, I will add them to my blog so these dudes can creep you all out, too! I inherently give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes...
the Nobel Prize for Literature eight years ago. You’ll see that it has some relevance to current events. (This year’s winner, just announced, is someone named Han Kang. I’m sure she’s very good, but I’ve never heard of her. But I don’t read many books – too many words!
When a swarm of bees are thus rudely assaulted with an ax, they evidently think the end of the world has come, and, like true misers as they are, each one seizes as much of the treasure as it can hold; in other words they all fall to and gorge themselves with honey, and calmly ...
Wiendrbac moves over to sit at Bini's booth, taking the opposite one, leaving Bini's her own or at the very least, Swiftfoot and her on the other. "You really do look good, Bini. Sorry bout the teasin', yeah?" Bini sighs and raises her middle finger, propping a cheek up on ...
While Denizen worked I walked. I ran. I discovered 45 new words for mangroves, another 17 for the reflections of water on leaves. The word for alcoholic drink, I found at a beach bar, had changed sometime in the 19th Century from horseshoe-bat-behind-your-eyes to death-will-call. Peop...
nails down rueful insights about cultivating high ambitions in cloistered times and tallies the ironies in striving for space in a future you otherwise fear and loathe. In other words, it’s about living one’s best possible life near the upper reaches (and below the radar) in the 21st cent...