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The Mad Creature Within
- spacedlaw
- (Nathalie)
I'm French.
I live in Italy.
Anything else you think you might need to know about me, you shall have to invent.
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5 micro stories in
Wonderful World of Worders
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Read "For the Love of Roses" at
Six Sentences
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Read "To the woman I once loved" at
Six Sentences (again)
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Micro Horror
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Read "Mixed Drinks"
Runner Up of the Mixed Drinks competition at
Six Sentences
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Read AND listen to "Pain(t) Flaking"
at Qarrtsiluni
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Have a look at "The Soul as Butterfly" again at
Six Sentences
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Read (finally)
"Shifting Away a Shape Shifter"
at Membra Disjecta
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Read "The Astronaut's Curse"
at Six Sentences
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Read "The Music of Affairs"
at The Battered Suitcase
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Read (and listen to) "Water that Was"
at Qarrtsiluni
Look at "Memory of Water" too while there...
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Read "Staying In"
at Six Sentences
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Read "A Night before Christmas"
at Best Little Christmas Story
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at MicroHorror
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Read "Memory"
At Six Sentences
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Read "Evening Prayer",
"Faded World",
"Night Garden"
and
"Night Cloud Dreaming"
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Read "Her Last Challenge"
at Six Sentences
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"Gone", "Life is Pink", and
"The Sage's Secret"
at Form.Reborn
(They have nominated
"The Sage's Secret"
for the 2009 Pushcart Prize!)
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Read "Dream Diary"
at Postcard Shorts
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Read "Twist of Fate" and
"Danse Macabre"
In 6S, V.2
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Read "Sleeping Beauty"
At Six Sentences
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Read "Hunger!"
At 7x20
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Read "Head Out"
in
"Vicious Verses and
Reanimated Rhymes:
Zany Zombie Poetry
for the Undead Head"
Read "Food for Thoughts"
at
Very Bad Poetry
for a lark...
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Read "Xoc"
at Woofer
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Read "A Bite of the Apple"
at Gloom Cupboard
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Read "Débacle"
at Seedpod Publishing
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Read "What's in a Shell?"
at Innsmouth Free Press
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Read "Poetic Justice"
at Seedpod Publishing
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Read "Slight"
at 50 to 1
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Read "Serial Writer"
at UnFold magazine
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Read "In Darkness"
in the "Sand: Strange Tales" anthology
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Read "Wiccan Wind Chant"
at Every Day Poets
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Read "I Thought You'd Like to know"
at The Writer's Eye
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Read "Souvenir"
at @7x20
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Read "Sushi Ice Cream"
At PicFic
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Read "Cooking Pasta on Mars"
at the Science in My Fiction Blog
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Read "Pearl"
At PicFic
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Read "Erosion"
at PicFic
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Read "Broken White"
In the
"Six Sentences Review - Vol.3"
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Read "Playing in Key"
in "Back in 5 Minutes"
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Read "Flying in to Bergen"
in "Haibun Today"
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Read three new unnamed Fibs
at The Fib Review
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Have a look at
"No Getting Away"
over at Qarrtsiluni
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Read "Golden Globes"
at UnFold
Which they have nominated for a
Best Of Net Award!
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Read "Reflect!"
at Everyday Weirdness
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Read "The Lane of Time"
at The Writer Eye Magazine
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To read "Brutal Awakening"
at Metazen
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Read "Damsel in Distress",
"Banshee",
"Angelfish go to Heaven",
"Werefaery",
and
"Drinking Djinn"
at @7x20
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Read "Portrait of the Moon"
at PicFic
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Read "Spring"
At UnFold
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Read four of my writings in
"On A Narrow Windowsill"
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Read "Caffeinated Supernova"
in
"Pay Attention: A river of Stones"
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Read "Jumping Ship"
at PicFic
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Read "A Tale of Two Gardens"
At The Night Garden Project
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Read "Popettine di Pollo Speziate"
at Twitpolpette
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Read
"In Space No One Can Hear You Scream"
In the eponymous
Poe Little Thing anthology
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"Voglie di Carnevale"
at Twitpolpette
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Read and see "Silence"
at Underwords
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Read "Landscape with Empty Eyes"
At The Fib Review
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Read "Of Snowflakes and Owls"
at The Sleep Club
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Read "Spring in Frascati"
at A Handful of Stones
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Read "Rainbow Dream"
at A Handful of Stones
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Read "Stories in the Possible Making"
in the ALMOST issue of We Still Like
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Read a few twitter stories of mine in
"140 and Counting"
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Read "Amundsen last Run"
In Historical Lovecraft
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Read "What's in a Shell?" and
"Admundsen last run" once more
In the Shadow of the Unknown anthology
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Read "What's in a Shell?" again
in this one
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Read "Details that used to count"
at Seedpod Publishing
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Read "Adrift" in Volume I issue IV
of A Few Lines Magazine
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Read "Graffiti" at Unfold
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Read "Flirt" and "Call Off Romance"
At The Fibs Review
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Read "Gourmet Dinner"
At 7x20
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Read "The End of the Day"
And "Growing Away"
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UNFORTUNATELY
You are too late
to read "Date", "Gift Wrapped",
"Reality", "Sweetheart's Gifts"
and "Wait" at
Pen Pricks Micro Fiction
(Dead Site)
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to read "Another End"
at Metazen
(That was a temporary publication)
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to read "An End to Ageing" at
Crime and Suspense
By the way...
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Some stories of mine in there...
And Finally...
26 comments:
These are both wonderful, but I especially like the second one and the idea of laughter in the sun and paint reinventing gardens... beautiful.
I especially love the 'ghost of laughters past'. I reminds me of the expressions often seen on the faces of older folks, seemingly recalling a precious moment of times past.
These are great Raven. I immediately thought of flowers when I think of laughter. The ghosts of laughter are so well represented in the garden art. I like both of these.
OOps. I am sorry Spacelaw, I didn't mean to give Raven credit for your beautiful work. I am just not awake yet this a.m.
Beautiful haiku and pics. I especially like the second one, that flower is just what i needed to see, cuz we still have so much snow left here and more predicted for today. Thanks for sharing.
I like the "ghost of laughters past". Many thanks for not playing the music automatically and giving readers the option to turn it ON.
The first makes me think of a wonderful uncle who lost years every time he smiled and the second makes me appreciate the joy of this wonderful time of year. God bless.
Writing in Faith: Poems
I, too, like the "ghosts of laughters past." Pleasant memories ...
This was truly a great post! I loved both...
laughter lines
The first made me laugh, and the second made me smile!
Those are both wonderful. The first one was haunting.
These are both wonderful - I especially like the ghosts of laughter!
"Paint reinventing gardens..." Nice line! Really like both 'ku.
Laughter in the sun is my favorite. The ancient guy seems to be laughing AT others and kind of scares me. Is he a bacchanalian being?
ghosts of laughter is so evocative!
spacedlaw, marvelous images in your poems! :D
Love them both in their own different way. Can't pick a favourite one here.
what a neat idea...laughter rippling through the ages!
How great that these bring smiles and laughter to me. Impressive, Nathalie!
Both are beautifully said and so thought-provoking.
laughter freezing into stone without becoming a grimace is hard.
those two are so good... truly passing on the laughter through stone and flowers.. hey, joe cocker, absolutely... saw him in concert long, long time ago... those were the days my friend... oh, that's another song...
You always create such beautiful art with photos and poems. I enjoy the old Santa in stone. No ancient grimace there, just happiness. The flower is so gorgeous, yes, they make me so happy outside in the woods.
marvelous the way
your words illustrate laughter
on these images
Hugs and blessings,
Thank you all for your kind comments and for the poems.
As a bit of info, the comedy mask on the first picture is to be found in Herculanum (near Naples) in this very room, which might have been - or not - a private theatre room if the other comedy masks are to be credited (but I don't really remember as the visit dates back from 10 years ago).
Great ku's in response to laughter. Loved 'em both. Nice work. The photos are also excellent, here and throughout your blog.
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