A pride of princesses
A Pride of Princesses. Penny the tomboy gets the boys to join her and dress as princesses. A piece of flash-fiction for the Friday Fictioneers group.
Month: May 2013
Porphyrophobia – afraid of purple?
Porphyrophobia: a person with an irrational fear of the colour purple. Irrational fears of certain skin colours lie at the root of so much evil. But purple?
Surreptitiously – a seasonal Twitter haiku
“Surreptitiously” is a Twitter haiku about winter and spring, age and youth. The illustration is probably a bit of wish fulfillment.
Hanging on the telephone – flash fiction
An angry woman on the telephone – inspired by Blondie’s “Hanging on the Telephone”. You wouldn’t want to get a call like this.
Insouciance
Insouciance – a poem in which Narcissus prefers to descibe his manner as insouciance. The alternative seems somehow self-centred. Besides – daffodils!
Through head-high grass – flash fiction
A hot, summer’s day and the boy is climbing the hill through head-high grass, but then he awakens something, and it’s not snakes from hibernation.
Arcane Lore – a Prayer to Osiris
Arcane lore – the story of the God-King Osiris, son of the Earth and the Sky, brother of darkness and chaos, dismembered and restored, recounted in a poem
Bottled Spirits – a flash fiction for Friday Fictioneers
Beware the spirits – the genies in the bottle. They are not what you think and they won’t delight you as you hope. Listen to the old bartender!
Interview with a catafalque
A music journalist interviews a Rose, a music creator, about the true meaning of a new music mode which he discovers isn’t what he thinks.
Falstaffian!
Falstaffian – a poem. Not ordinary, workaday, pedestrian, quotidian, But roaring, exceptional, gargantuan, Falstaffian!