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"It's in the blood. Or the soul. Or it may be the invitation stands open to any who wants it. Sometimes, there's a heart-sickness and a rage that boils over. When the world hurts you. And all you want to do is to hurt it back."
"Most of us," she added, "We came from places of war and horror and pain. The cartels, the rape camps. War zones. Gaza, Afghanistan, Syria, Sarajevo. When the world becomes like a nightmare so you become one, too."
to a retriever
the greatest delight of all
is a tennis ball!
#MastoPrompt 6 May 25 - greatest
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/spring-fever-dog-art-sharon-cummings.html
Now for at least one of those pictures I promised:
This is the first animal we found in the yard. He is a mean cocky squirrel who is twice as large as any of the other squirrels in the yard
Obviously he got too close to a power plant...
But he's practically here every day being the little shit he is to many of the other animals
Meeting her in life
was beautiful, best of all
her choosing to stay
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Jump into Life - Aobram's sister.
"That piece of shit over there is Reaper. He likes you!"
"I like being liked," Felicia muttered.
"It beats the alternative. Over there, that's Iron Horse. She's a piece of shit, too. We all are. That's Wandering Eye. Nomad is around here somewhere. Probably hiding. I swear, that girl is more cat than she has a right to be..."
"Code names are really popular, huh."
Razorgirl snorted. "Says the fucking Walking Storm! How many people put a 'the' in their names, huh?"
"It's optional."
Colony insects
under the terras pavement
stronger than paving
(Every couple of years I have to repave it)
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Together, even
as a pair, you can achieve
the best in living
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Life is Wonderful - Aobram
thinned air rain-diluted
drive badly, baldy tyres
green door
blackboard dusters felt and wood
varnished
shopping on the shelves
trying to predict futures
build religions from visions
of the opposite side of the aisle
hauntings in the high corners of rooms
bartered from strangers for a time
neither your own nor not, somehow
long trees fallen and moss swarmed
wriggling shining beneath lifted rocks
a sky so wide it's god's own grin
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 6 May 25 - greatest
coworkers dancing
freedom of steps known to all
distant, the city
#DailyHaikuPrompt - 6 May 2025 - ants.
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The fire burns bright in the convent’s kitchen, as Sister Avis waits for Cromwell’s man in Our Lady of Sorrow by PR Woods:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/our-lady-of-sorrows-p-r-woods
Image: Max Kukurudziak
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon
Hello there! #Introduction
UK-based, long-time lurker, occasional account creator-then-deleter, giving it another go.
I'm into #technology and #gadgets, though I try not to buy stuff unless I really convince myself I need it.
So current devices include an iPhone XR and an old, unsupported MacBook Air running Chrome OS Flex. I've also got back into experimenting with #Linux.
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#WritersCoffeeClub May 6: What does your usual workspace look like? Share a picture.
I'm not into sharing a picture. It's a desk with a laptop and a monitor. Same same as everyone else.
There is a painting on the wall, though, of typewriter font on a white background that says, "A word is worth a thousand pictures." My mother and me made it together 20 years ago.
"There may be much to fear in the near future, yet it could also be the most exciting time to be alive." —David Attenborough for The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times · David Attenborough at 99: ‘I will not see how the story ends’
American culture and the arts:
Tessa Hulls was making sandwiches in the Alaska Capitol when she learned she had won a Pulitzer Prize.
Her book, “Feeding Ghosts,” is a nonfiction graphic novel that documents three generations of women in her family, starting with her grandmother, who was a journalist at the time of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
It had already won three national awards by the time the Pulitzer announcement came on Monday, placing her among America’s top writers. She won for the category of memoir or autobiography, which is in its third year and comes with a $15,000 prize.
“I’m having a surreal day,” she said, shortly after this year’s winners were announced. “Now I’ve got to go back to making sandwiches.”
The trouble with dangling modifiers. New blog post:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/the-trouble-with-dangling-modifiers/
Sentence first · The trouble with dangling modifiers
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I wrote a book. It’s called Drystone – A Life Rebuilt.
If you like:
Non-Fiction (but make it literary)
Stone (but as metaphor too)
Feminism (but quiet and feral)
Men (but as minor characters)
Land (but not romanticised)
Motherhood (but honest)
Then congratulations, this very good book is for you.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/drystone-a-life-rebuilt-kristie-de-garis/7836359?ean=9781846976469
Why do we write, anyway? I believe that the main reason a human should write is to communicate original thoughts. To be clear, I don’t believe that these thoughts need to be special or academic. Your vacation, your dog, and your favorite color are all fair game. However, these thoughts should be yours: there’s no point in wasting ink to communicate someone else’s thoughts. In that sense, using a #languagemodel to write is worse than plagiarism. https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/ #AI #education #writing
claytonwramsey.comI'd rather read the prompt I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.