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Review: City by James Roy
Originally posted on Saturday Night's Alright for Writing:
Title: City Series: None, companion to Town Author: James Roy Published by: University of Queensland Press 2012 Genre: YA, contemporary, short stories Length: 312 pages Rating: 4 stars Goodreads | Amazon | Bookworld Everyone has a story The people in City aren’t special. They’re the young…
Just about
Originally posted on e-Tinkerbell:
What did the good Pharrel Williams say ?”Clap along if you know what happiness is to you“, well I guess he has done a lot clapping this year considering the immense success of his worldwide hit ” Happy“, however, do you know what happiness is to you, or better when? Metaphorically…
FOR FALLEN REALITIES, LIKE HAPPINESS
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
as I write these lines i find happiness in my heart at random, like water tasted pure Possessing me, how could I make happiness like me per se I feel the lineage of bliss tonight orchid whirlwinds residing somewhere within, like melting from the inside for sunsets and also, mad…
What’s the Ideal Length of your Post?
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Abraham Lincoln, giant In other words, how long is long enough? Now, now, my dear readers, please take your mind off the gutter. I’m simply referring to the ideal length of a social media post – any social media post. Abraham Lincoln was asked, “How long should a man’s legs…
Throwback Thursday: Fear of Formatting
Originally posted on All I Have to Say:
It’s Throwback Thursday again, and today’s recycled post goes back to May 2013. As I endeavor to format and publish a new book (wish me luck), I’ve been thinking about those self-publishing fears that prevent some of us authors from going it alone. Don’t let your fear…
Scattered Fables of Neurons, Past Lives
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
with the precipitations of music I saw that my number was up an archipelago of magic began with the script of pilgrimage the clarities of the green earth below with five senses that spin to the grin of loved ones serendipity, my body’s mouth to be filled with water, your…
Death in the Dark Walk, by Deryn Lake
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
In one of the first posts here at BFGB, I wrote about Bruce Alexander’s Sir John Fielding mystery series, set in 18th century London, and featuring the blind magistrate of the Bow Street Court, brother to novelist Henry Fielding. Alexander’s untimely death brought the series to an…
Delirium of Images, Sounds, Music
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
there are these messages tattooed to the neurons that I used to believe belong to me they are everywhere, shimmering with the electric light of souls some call it “chi”, we are fragments of something coherent vibrant and creative there are these messages of madness for discourse and theater, drama,…
Flash Fiction Friday: Baby Carrot
Originally posted on Bizarro Central:
by Crystal Babb “A carrot with hair,” he groused and finished his beer. He set the beer stein on the counter harder than he meant to, but the thick glass did not complain. Neither did the carrot, which he regarded with narrowed eyes. “It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever…
Staff Spotlight July: Merrilee!
Originally posted on BookPeople:
Merrilee’s spotlight display in BookKids for the month of July. ~post by Merrilee Like Ellen did in April, for my turn in the staff spotlight, I spent a certain amount of time thinking of a theme. I got a great idea, changed my mind, changed it again, thought of something else…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 