Linda talked of herself as having a ‘butterfly mind’, and
when prompted by puzzled expressions would expand “Oh, I just flit from idea to
idea without being able to concentrate on any of them!” She would then take the
metaphor further, and explain how at least from her fleeting chance encounters
she had gained a good overview of how beautiful the world around her was. What
she never understood, what was missing from the eulogizing at her crowded humanist
cremation, was how beautiful the friends around her regarded her flitting among
them. For from where they stood, Linda’s wings had made a snow angel from their
powdery existence.
Monday, 3 June 2013
Friday, 8 February 2013
81 - Scape-bread
One friend taught her to make scape-bread. “Knead it hard for
at least ten minutes; I work out all my anger when I’m making bread!”
Another showed her that dough was in want of caresses rather than pummelling. “Fold gently; treat it with respect: it is a living creature.”
So it is that she lives life as an apprentice baker, beating her frustrations into those around her, or nurturing their growth, as the day takes her.
Another showed her that dough was in want of caresses rather than pummelling. “Fold gently; treat it with respect: it is a living creature.”
So it is that she lives life as an apprentice baker, beating her frustrations into those around her, or nurturing their growth, as the day takes her.
Friday, 25 January 2013
80 - A Quick Game of Drabble ...*
“Hurry up, Mikka!”
Across the space between them appeared ‘Three of the moons were droid-made’.
“Double-phrase for ‘droid-made’, makes 43 klep.”
Sor smiled sweetly as he joined ‘moons’ to ‘Saturn’ with ‘imploded above’.
“Triple-syllable for ‘imploded’: 92.5 to me, sucker!”
Mikka mind-melded with his weapons. You could never be sure an old-time galanaut like Sor had entirely lost the habit of post-victory genocide, and Sor’s ship was itching for a fight.
There was a burst of noise aft.
“Mother ship beacon,” sang Mikka. “Call it a draw.”
Before Sor could answer him, the retreating picket’s neutron-drive scattered the phrases.
* I don't know if sci-fi writers invented flash-fiction, but a 'drabble' is an SF story no more than 100 words long.
Across the space between them appeared ‘Three of the moons were droid-made’.
“Double-phrase for ‘droid-made’, makes 43 klep.”
Sor smiled sweetly as he joined ‘moons’ to ‘Saturn’ with ‘imploded above’.
“Triple-syllable for ‘imploded’: 92.5 to me, sucker!”
Mikka mind-melded with his weapons. You could never be sure an old-time galanaut like Sor had entirely lost the habit of post-victory genocide, and Sor’s ship was itching for a fight.
There was a burst of noise aft.
“Mother ship beacon,” sang Mikka. “Call it a draw.”
Before Sor could answer him, the retreating picket’s neutron-drive scattered the phrases.
* I don't know if sci-fi writers invented flash-fiction, but a 'drabble' is an SF story no more than 100 words long.
Friday, 11 January 2013
79 - The Cock-a-Leekie Ebbs
The cock-a-leekie ebbs from the right of the bowl, and I read in its jetsam a turn to the north. It is part way through the Wellington that I realize that though the meal is just right the train itself is quite wrong. I have until the dessert course to re-think my holiday, and until breakfast to make contact with my luggage, checked-in to the van. I’ve made worse mistakes, I decide, and order a liqueur.
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