“Is it time now?” asked Ecru as she crouched, her hands and knees beneath her, her head pushed forward in the tall grass, watching the village between the reeds. Lying flat on his stomach, chin on the ground, aware of the village but not watching...
allusion There is smoke in my nose, but no cigarette. There is a dragon in the room, hiding like an elf. I will fan his fire if he lets the maiden go. I can’t find him. All I have is cheese which I cannot eat. illusion The python wraps around...
Chitchat is a mystery you’ll never unravel. There are too many threads to sort and you always sort them wrong anyhow. At least, that’s what people tell you. You stand, you drink, you deadlift a smile and hold it for a three count. ...
Mama, my mama lady come and see I’ve got a new truth that I found under the rock today in the yard. It’s fairly difficult to explain so I’ll go slow oh, mama, I can’t eat now there’s too much to see … Mama, my good old lady baby, listen while...
Enter the manor through the main door at the front, the chiselled archway and solid wood. After one of the servants has taken your coat, maybe someone will give you a tour: the grand hall with its huge portraits of the manor’s former masters...
the angle of the sun is perfect as it always is on postcard pictures just the right shade of afternoon yellow so everything is washed clean by the light my friend my traveling companion describes for me the smells and sounds and details— paints the...
Mona Fiori, 9173–9220 Though hailed as a prodigy at age 12 after successfully winning the Academy Prize for the most fully-realized envisioning among children, Mona Fiori disappeared from view, only to reappear in the capitol at age 37.[1] In a...
I lived my life in nineteen forty-two, between the air-raids and the rations, waiting for when you returned and held me close, a forgotten thing, this and this and this a coming spring, a winter that rolled on with bangs and darkness and things...
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