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Friday Fictioneers 100 Word Story Challenge: DS Squared Et Cetera
DS Squared Et Cetera
“Lovely approach to her tomb.”
“Approach?”
“Maze.”
“The pathways are dead ends.”
She looked. “Meaning?”
“Legend says the maze symbolised the unbridgeable divide between the living and the dead.”
“Why have you brought me here?” Continue reading
Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction Challenge 31 January 2014: Rhythm and Algorithm
The Rhythm and the Algorithm
“No Smoking in Workshop.” I laughed.
“What’s funny?”
“There’s nobody in it, ergo they all smoke.”
“Quod erat demonstrandum – not – mathematician. They could’ve been abducted by aliens.”
“Bigfoot?” Continue reading
Posted in Dialogue, Short Story Writing, Writing
Tagged Algorithm, Dialogue, Flash Fiction, flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Rhythm, Romance, Romantic writing, Short Story Writing
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A New Beginning on my Novel: Flint & Feather
The Laurel Grove Mysteries (Book One)
Flint & Feather
“Sweet to tongue and sound to eye …”.
She was motionless outside Trocadéro metro station, looking up the steps towards the entrance to the musée de l’Homme. How had she landed up here? She should have been on the Left Bank, heading towards the gallery. She was weary to her bones.
… bone, wood, horn, feather, thread of gut …
Again, the peculiar sensation of being outside herself, her sosie – Laurel Two looking into Laurel One. This time Laurel Two was seeing, reflected back from the blackness of her twin’s pupil, a halo. On the halo’s inner rim was a web from which tiny random drops of light were suspended. Continue reading
Posted in Editing & Proofreading, Writing
Tagged Fiction, flash fiction, Mystery & Suspense, novel, Online Writing, Romance, Spiritual, Supernatural Writing
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There’s Something Fishy About Me or: Auspicious Accident II
So there I was, transformed into a me-sized salmon, lying in a hospital bed awaiting death and rebirth. In Auspicious Accident: Part One, I’d had a fall; that night, a vivid and meaningful dream, in which I found myself prone on … Continue reading
Posted in Dreams, Short Story Writing, spirituality, Writing
Tagged Book of Kells, Celtic Christianity, Dream, Dream Interpretation, Kells, Romance, Salmon, Sci-fi Writing, Short Story Writing, Theme, Vesica Piscis
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Friday Fictioneers 100-Word Story Challenge: An Affair of the Heart
An Affair of the Heart
“With this hand I converted you. You cannot revert”.
“I was never that statue fashioned from this block”.
“I made you in beauty unsurpassable; then, invoking Venus, made you flesh!” Continue reading
Posted in Short Story Writing, Writing
Tagged Apologia, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Galatea, Pygmalion, Romance, romance writing, Short Story Writing, Talking Heads, Venus
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Friday Fictioneers 100-Word Story Challenge: The Demise of Emily Huxley
“Marry me?”
“World’s ending.”
“Proposal rejection 13. Novel.” Bubbles in his beer deflated. “That ocean will outlast the walls of this beach house.”
“Not for long.”
“Headlines – Palaeontologist Predicts End of World.”
“Palaeontologists Report Planet’s Final Straw.”
“Which is?”
“The demise of Emily Huxley.” Continue reading
Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 