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Hawthorn

Anyone know if this IS a Hawthorn?? Anyway, it's the one I can see from the window of The Writer's Den. Image photo taken this morning.
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The Picture Ranch 71

'So you don't know anything about what happened?' Eleanor G blew some smoke into the air. The sky was turning as red as her lipstick. 'No more n'you...
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The Picture Ranch 70

70 up. Reckon I know where I'm going... Does Fisher? Image created by me at canva.com
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The Picture Ranch 69

Bet you've given up on this! [I almost did, too]. But I'm going to KDP it when it's done - and I've pulled the loopholes tight and rescued the dangling threads. Image source is Pinterest, but the image is PD... and yes, that is Buster in drag.
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Pick A City

I dare you. image created at canva.com by me.

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I do

Posted on Fri, 18 Dec 2020

remember the ghost in the armchair from others' houses, it would have been a grandparent of course. Never saw anyone violent. That must be truly awful, like living with a tyrant.
The washing machine that we were encouraged to use in The...

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Posted in A Life Like That

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No,

Posted on Mon, 07 Dec 2020

I don't feel there's too much dialogue at all. Exposition can be achieved through dialogue or narrative and you should definitely mix it up whether you're writing a short story, novella or a novel.

If I have doubts about which to use in a...

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One theory

Posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2020

is that Ashurbanipal was Sardanapalus (and transliteration can do funny things, especially from cuneiform into Greek and later Latin script) BUT Ashurbanipal is everywhere else but in Cteisis's version - which itself is only known through...

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Perhaps your

Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2020

next collection could contain a whole aviary? Another fine poem.
E x

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Hahaha

Posted on Sun, 15 Nov 2020

If only it weren't all so nearly true!
Well done.

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Posted in Invisible

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Your poem

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2020

reminded me of a visit to the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore one day, over 40 years ago.

Monsoon season, I remember it well. Half the broadsheet back page of the Straits Times would be dedicated to forecasts attempting to predict at what...

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Some

Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020

striking imagery here.

Do you mean "algæ-d" at line 8?

Your poem finishes very strongly with these lines.

"the sun’s departure 

under the horizon’s guillotine,

 

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I think

Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2020

this has touches of MR James about it: something off, glimpsed out of the corner of your eye. Bags of atmosphere, you have a sure touch when generating a sense of place.

Sound.

Ewan x

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If

Posted on Tue, 20 Oct 2020

books COULD talk 'though, eh?

I loved this Sean. It made me laugh and when it's dark those who make us laugh loudest are the best writers of all. 

Ewan

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Weird

Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2020

is good. And that's all I have to say.

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