Quoth the Generator: The story’s protaganist is female and a clerk. A gun plays a significant part in the story. The story is set in a rainstorm in the far future. The story is about revenge. Title: Two Dragons 1300 words Excerpt: Slowly she came into focus, there in my drowsy headspace: blonde hair pulled …
Today the world smelled like lilacs. It made me smile. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll have some photos.
September 13th is my anniversary. 13 Engines’ Perpetual Motion Machine, alt-rock from 1994, rocks. Half of the Friday the 13ths that fall are paydays for me. The other half are not. But that’s okay because my wife’s payday is offset from mine by a week. Hercules, a well-known and easy-to-find constellation in these northern latitudes, contains the globular cluster M13. …
An endlessly-looping photomosaic zoomer. Found via BoingBoing. Enjoy!
…in my FM Writers challenge is set in the far future. How far? About seven and a half billion years, I think. The Parley (you’ll need the password; it’s earth <– highlight to read .
This weekend, the May Long Weekend here in Canada, eh, was the Senior National Competition for judo. It took place in Winnipeg, which is just down the road a piece. The head instructor at our club was responsible for the opening ceremonies and the medal presentations, and so a bunch of us from the club …
After falling a little behind (I was doing a story every second day; it was six days since the previous one) I sat down and did up a new story last night. The generator gave me The theme of this story: tragic mystery. The main characters: confused cab driver and pious rogue. The start of …
A raven strains along the line of the road, carrying a muddy, old skull the wires whistle their approval, off down the distance “At the Hundredth Meridian”, The Tragically Hip So the other day I bought The Tragically Hip’s “Yer Favourites” double CD. It makes me happy. Like my wife said once: “Of course you like …
Pink lemonade = crazy delicious. Pink lemonade after toast and honey = not quite so crazy delicious. Sour-tastic!
…is no more. The rest of the set We went to Clear Lake last weekend to take apart the projectors at the now-defunct drive-in at Sportsmans’ Park. After that we went out to supper at a highwayside diner called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.