FoxandTortoise

I feel there is a lot to be learnt here. If you're feeling inclined, please provide critque.

8 reads

Quoth the Villain

Sugar is lazy. If I put sugar in my coffee, of it's own accord, will sink straight to the bottom. Like anything in life, things are always sweeter with a bit of turbulence.

FoxandTortoise

30 reads

Despite all my faults, my ambitions acertain;

This will not be my forever.

Challenge

one book everyone should read

FoxandTortoise

27 reads

The Zoo Story Edward Albee 1958 One Act Play

Put two characters from different walks of life on a park bench and see what transpires in the space of an hour.

I find it amazing how strong the dialogue can get and how revealing it can be for the characters whilst still seeming completely natural.

Challenge

Challenge of the Week CXCI

Rebirth. From the ashes, born anew. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.

FoxandTortoise

32 reads

Necessity

Don’t you understand?

Said the fire to the tree.

For youth of little band.

It’s necessity.

You aren’t a consolation ’cause the others had to fall.

If you weren’t nourished by the ashes

you wouldn’t be here at all.

FoxandTortoise

33 reads

Whadya say?

"Whad'ya 'ya a say?" He enquired.

"You leave in three weeks and me in four."

"Whadya say if we pretended we were in love and it were a good idea and even if we ain't we won't ever be the wiser a'fer and if we are it will be t' best three weeks of our lives."

FoxandTortoise

23 reads

Risk

What had happened was clear.

They had failed to beat the light.

Challenge

Describe a stranger.

Maybe it's the delivery person, the fruit shop worker or the old lady driving the car next to you at the traffic light ( don't Prose and drive). Poetry or short story.

FoxandTortoise

55 reads

The man with the limp

No one would ask him how he had acquired the limp.

Most wouldn’t even contemplate the scene. Just an old man slowly making his way past the stalls of flea market in the early hours of a Saturday morning.

A life long ailment, a foolish accident or a heroic gesture it would be impossible to deduce.

From my position at the pre-loved plantstall I could determine only one thing:

For the time being, he was managing.