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I will be publishing Tom Garback’s flash fiction work “The Modern Medusa” here at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June 24. It is eerie, a little unnerving, and well done for such as short piece. Tom’s voice gives the piece an unsettling atmosphere. Please drop by to read it.
Er galt als ebenso gut wie umstritten. Gut – bezogen auf die Qualität seiner Bilder, umstritten – bezogen auf deren Sujets. Unbestritten ist jedoch, dass der Fotograf Helmut Newton (1920–2004) ein Großer seines Metiers war. Helmut Newton – The Bad and The Beautiful, ein Film über sein Leben und Werk, der nun in den Kinos…
I will be publishing Tom Garback’s flash fiction work “The Modern Medusa” here at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June 24. It is eerie, a little unnerving, and well done for such as short piece. Tom’s voice gives the piece an unsettling atmosphere. Please drop by to read it.
Let me tell you a story about the time my sugar mummy made me cook porridge for her. First of “cooking porridge” means cooking porridge. It is not a roundabout way of alluding to some kinky type of sugar mummy perversion from the nineteen nineties. I know the younger readers of this blog like to […]
via A Tale of Romance, Lost Love, and Bushera — Let Me Tell You A Story
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle explores the meaning and origins of a famous Shakespeare phrase ‘Hoist with one’s own petard’. The expression is well-known, and its meaning is fairly clear to most people: it describes someone who has been scuppered by their own schemes, […] The post The Curious…
via The Curious Meaning of the Phrase ‘Hoist with One’s Own Petard’ — Interesting Literature
This quarantine I lost a few things. The struggle of locating car keys in the morning got replaced by a quiet cup of tea while dad read the morning news out loud. The scramble to cook and pack breakfast and lunch into multiple tiffin boxes सlowed down into serene hours spent in the kitchen learning […]
Lungs, give me time To say I’m sorry. To my parents who will grieve for me To my children who will suffer for me To any children who might have been if they had had the chance of life. To my friends whose life I changed for the worst. To my mind Tortured beyond endurance […]
via LUNGS – a poem by Lorrine A Graham… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog
In einem idyllischen Dorf in Oberösterreich trifft sich die große Welt im Kleinen. Dominik Barta nimmt die heile Welt in seinem Debütroman Vom Land (Zsolnay) maßgerecht auseinander, und zwar mit einer guten Portion Wut und Liebe. Es gibt eine Tendenz zum Mikrokosmos. Das Geschehen der großen weiten Welt im Brennglas eines klitzekleinen Fleckens zu zeigen,…
By Bibiana Krall “I have never danced in the rain,” she said. Her words transported me back in time to my childhood. Woods protected our farm, a fragrant mystery of spruce, maple and oak. The rain gutter on the barn perched so high, hawks nested there. Providence was a hole in the eavestrough the size […]
via The Waterfall —
Elwyn Brooks White, American writer, author of popular children’s books, including “Stuart Little” and “Charlotte’s Web”, was born on 11 July 1899 ( and died in 1985) Here are three of his quotes: 🎉 I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. 🎉 Prejudice is a great time saver. […]
via Happy Birthday, E.B. White!🎉 — words and music and stories
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 