Cherry

If you meet me, have some sympathy 19

A story emerging in 200-word episodes. Our heroes have found their way into the social network, but it's not really what it's cracked up to be ...

Windswept shadows...

A place shadows didn’t want to disassociate themselves; from His bough and leaf green stem. Where they’re dissolved mulches would conflate Together in that that is no-longer mayhem.

Carlos Ruis Zafron (2005) ‘The Shadow of the Wind.’ Phoenix, trans. by Lucian Graves.

Some books make you scowl with displeasure. Some make you taller and better looking. Some make you fall in love. Some make you forget yourself and live only with the characters on the page. This is one of the latter. It didn’t start off that way. There are a number of narrators, but essentially it is the story of Daniel Sempere’s coming of age. I could just as easily say it is the story of Julian Carex, the author of ‘The Shadow of the Wind’...

Raspberry canes

In and out the raspberry canes “On a jack-frost bitten day: With nothing more than twine, and knife… To earn my daily” pay. Bending back the line of whips!

Zibberling

I never intended to be entirely anonymous. This is my story.

Sonnet: Confession

I always do this. I must learn to break this habit: I never see things through. If chance should have it that I must choose something dull or something new,

The song of the robin

The old man walked down his path, Humming the song of the robin, The beautiful song that always made him laugh, More then he had ever laughed with his kin.
Cherry

Darkness

'she fears the darkness and when the light shines; she gathers her body up- a human blind, tries to keep the light alive.'

The Killing Channel 4 (US version).

The Killing is remake of the hit TV series shown on BBC 4 (and as a must have box-set) right down to the bobbly wool jumper worn by the lead detective Sarah Lund. The woolly jumper wearer in this series is Sarah Linden (Mirielle Enos). Her sidekick Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnamen) had moved over from narcotics to homicide and this is his first case. The thing is, I can’t remember Sarah Lund’s sidekick in the original. I can only remember Sarah...

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