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.
What's blogging?
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ALSO
5 micro stories in
Wonderful World of Worders
OR
Read "For the Love of Roses" at
Six Sentences
OR
Read "To the woman I once loved" at
Six Sentences (again)
OR
Read "Blood Moon" at
Micro Horror
OR
Read "Mixed Drinks"
Runner Up of the Mixed Drinks competition at
Six Sentences
(Thanks for voting)
OR
Read AND listen to "Pain(t) Flaking"
at Qarrtsiluni
OR
Have a look at "The Soul as Butterfly" again at
Six Sentences
OR
Read (finally)
"Shifting Away a Shape Shifter"
at Membra Disjecta
OR
Read "The Astronaut's Curse"
at Six Sentences
OR
Read "The Music of Affairs"
at The Battered Suitcase
OR
Read (and listen to) "Water that Was"
at Qarrtsiluni
Look at "Memory of Water" too while there...
OR
Read "Staying In"
at Six Sentences
OR
Read "A Night before Christmas"
at Best Little Christmas Story
OR
Read "Cold End"
at MicroHorror
OR
Read "Memory"
At Six Sentences
OR
Read "Evening Prayer",
"Faded World",
"Night Garden"
and
"Night Cloud Dreaming"
at FabulousLorraine.com
OR
Read "Her Last Challenge"
at Six Sentences
OR
Read "Barbed Wires", "Funeral",
"Gone", "Life is Pink", and
"The Sage's Secret"
at Form.Reborn
(They have nominated
"The Sage's Secret"
for the 2009 Pushcart Prize!)
OR
Read "Dream Diary"
at Postcard Shorts
OR
Read "Twist of Fate" and
"Danse Macabre"
In 6S, V.2
OR
Read "Sleeping Beauty"
At Six Sentences
OR
Read "Hunger!"
At 7x20
OR
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...
OR
Read "Xoc"
at Woofer
OR
Read "A Bite of the Apple"
at Gloom Cupboard
OR
Read "Débacle"
at Seedpod Publishing
OR
Read "What's in a Shell?"
at Innsmouth Free Press
OR
Read "Poetic Justice"
at Seedpod Publishing
OR
Read "Slight"
at 50 to 1
OR
Read "Serial Writer"
at UnFold magazine
OR
Read "In Darkness"
in the "Sand: Strange Tales" anthology
OR
OR
Read "Wiccan Wind Chant"
at Every Day Poets
OR
Read "I Thought You'd Like to know"
at The Writer's Eye
OR
Read "Souvenir"
at @7x20
OR
Read "Sushi Ice Cream"
At PicFic
OR
Read "Cooking Pasta on Mars"
at the Science in My Fiction Blog
OR
Read "Pearl"
At PicFic
OR
Read "Erosion"
at PicFic
OR
Read "Broken White"
In the
"Six Sentences Review - Vol.3"
OR
Read "Playing in Key"
in "Back in 5 Minutes"
OR
Read "Flying in to Bergen"
in "Haibun Today"
OR
Read three new unnamed Fibs
at The Fib Review
OR
Have a look at
"No Getting Away"
over at Qarrtsiluni
OR
Read "Golden Globes"
at UnFold
Which they have nominated for a
Best Of Net Award!
OR
Read "Reflect!"
at Everyday Weirdness
OR
Read "The Lane of Time"
at The Writer Eye Magazine
OR
To read "Brutal Awakening"
at Metazen
(Search with my name)
OR
Read "Damsel in Distress",
"Banshee",
"Angelfish go to Heaven",
"Werefaery",
and
"Drinking Djinn"
at @7x20
OR
Read "Portrait of the Moon"
at PicFic
OR
Read "Spring"
At UnFold
OR
Read four of my writings in
"On A Narrow Windowsill"
OR
Read "Caffeinated Supernova"
in
"Pay Attention: A river of Stones"
OR
Read "Jumping Ship"
at PicFic
OR
Read "A Tale of Two Gardens"
At The Night Garden Project
OR
Read "Popettine di Pollo Speziate"
at Twitpolpette
OR
Read
"In Space No One Can Hear You Scream"
In the eponymous
Poe Little Thing anthology
OR
"Voglie di Carnevale"
at Twitpolpette
OR
Read and see "Silence"
at Underwords
OR
Read "Landscape with Empty Eyes"
At The Fib Review
OR
Read "Of Snowflakes and Owls"
at The Sleep Club
OR
Read "Spring in Frascati"
at A Handful of Stones
OR
Buy
From Folded Word
OR
Read "Rainbow Dream"
at A Handful of Stones
OR
Read "Stories in the Possible Making"
in the ALMOST issue of We Still Like
OR
Read a few twitter stories of mine in
"140 and Counting"
OR
Read "Amundsen last Run"
In Historical Lovecraft
OR
Read "What's in a Shell?" and
"Admundsen last run" once more
In the Shadow of the Unknown anthology
OR
Read "What's in a Shell?" again
in this one
OR
Read "Details that used to count"
at Seedpod Publishing
OR
Read "Adrift" in Volume I issue IV
of A Few Lines Magazine
OR
Read "Graffiti" at Unfold
OR
Read "Flirt" and "Call Off Romance"
At The Fibs Review
OR
Read "Gourmet Dinner"
At 7x20
OR
Read "The End of the Day"
And "Growing Away"
at The Rusty Nail Magazine
OR
OR
UNFORTUNATELY
You are too late
to read "Date", "Gift Wrapped",
"Reality", "Sweetheart's Gifts"
and "Wait" at
Pen Pricks Micro Fiction
(Dead Site)
OR
to read "Another End"
at Metazen
(That was a temporary publication)
OR
to read "An End to Ageing" at
Crime and Suspense
By the way...
More Promoting
Some stories of mine in there...
And Finally...
16 comments:
Profound..
scotch-taped
This was excellently described.
I'm speechless. Beautifully done.
You always seem to perceive and express fresh facets of real life - thanks for this memorable piece.
I have the same word in mind as Kitehorse - memorable. Very beautifully done, and the music is the perfect pairing!
wonderful poem
full of grace
This is a time when the sounds of silence is so loud.
Exquisite and profound. Thank you.
Dear Nathalie--
I've had the privilege to be intimate with death many times during my life, and that evanescent booming is is the best description I've yet heard.
Thank you for this loveliness--
Bows--
Hi Nathalie, this would be true. And stated in a poetic manner. I suppose I should be grateful that I have never experienced it.
I do say that I am sorry my Mom died while our plane was coming in for landing. My sister was there, she didn't say about the breathing.
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how does one say "geez but you are cool" in French?
What a great way to describe the rattle at the end of life. I have never been with a person at that time but have seen several animals across the bridge-- it is a Holy thing.
Silence can pack quite a punch. It's hard to listen sometimes.
Strong work. Listening. Hearing. Excellent description.
Oh my goodness, this touched my soul .. and reminded me the day my mother died. I was eleven, and she collapsed right in front of my eyes.
This is truly profound and the presentation awesome!
Nathalie, I do hope you are not involved in those earthquakes and that you still have a home.
I am also concerned for your friends and relatives (if any are living near).
My e-mail address is
jhovendic[at]yahoo.com
I'd like you to e-mail me to say how you are doing. Keeping my fingers crossed and praying,
Jim
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