night in the city –
grateful
for a few stars
Month: March 2015
#quikfic 142
Ann was tired of being alone. She got a child’s car seat and put a teddy bear in it. The bear fit in the shopping cart seat, too.
Quotable 242
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
– Stephen King
haiku 354
cloudy –
another classmate’s obit
in the paper
#quikfic 141
The captain had never seen such a storm and never expected to again. He saved a whiskey bottle from falling. No need to die sober.
Quotable 241
To my mind the best one can ever do as a writer is be honest about your background and partialities and try to understand how they affect your outlook, to do violence to your own cliches, to practice compassion over caricature.
– Laurie Penny
haiku 353
evening lights –
Venus over
neon
#quikfic 140
He filled a coffee mug with vodka and drank it down. Antifreeze. He didn’t want to, but he remembered when a Texas summer was hot.
Quotable 240
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
– Terry Pratchett (1948 – 2015)
haiku 352
warm March evening –
holiday lights still shine
on porches, bushes