The three “books” I read are in a slim volume titled, Three Legends, by Paul Gallico and includes: “The Snow Goose,” “The Small Miracle,” and “Ludmila.” All three have been published as separate books, but each of them qualify as either a short story or a novella. With the volume I read, published by Doubleday…
Author: Lisa or Li
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dVerse — MTB — I Promise
ORIGINAL POEM (SONG) I’m Not Sayin’, by Gordon LightfootI’m not sayin’ that I love youI’m not sayin’ that I’ll care if you love meI’m not sayin’ that I’ll careI’m not sayin’ I’ll be there when you need meI can’t give my heart to youOr tell you that I’ll sing your name up to the skyI…
#FF — A Different Sun
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz She’d met someone; started looking after walking in on Jack with Harold. All these years she’d blamed herself for not being attractive enough, accommodating enough, adventurous enough. It was time to feel warm strong arms around her that wanted her. Jack was more than generous as they split up the…
dVerse — Poetics — My name is Hattie
As many times as I look in the mirror and pin my hair just right,so its beauty hides behind my scarf, out of lusting sight, still the knife twists in my gut when I know what is to come,where fine gentlemen ogle, touch, and blurt obscenities tome the lowly, serving wench. When possible I…
Hanspostcard Movie Draft — Round 9, Pick 9, May 4, 2021 — “Natural Born Killers” (1994)
Title: Natural Born Killers (1994) Genre: Crime Director: Oliver Stone Story by: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Everett Quinton, Jared Harris, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Edie McClurg, Russell Means, Lanny Flaherty, O-Lan Jones, Robert Downey Jr., Richard Lineback, Kirk Baltz, Ed White, Terrylene, Maria Pitillo, Josh Richman, Tommy Lee Jones,…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #83 – May 4, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! There is a real mix of movies this week, from painful to joyful to fantastical to outright TERRIFYING. One film, John Huston’s, “Wise Blood,” an old b&w, sounded good and maybe even is good, but I couldn’t get past the ongoing racial epithets by the main character…
dVerse — Quadrille 127 — Seed Bank
I’ve invested seed money,believing in the ABC’s:asters yield deep purple;balloon flowers top charts;cosmos caps capture interest. Incented, content, I sniff,blessed by return kindness.My shareholder butterfly strawglugs from milkweed constellations. Wreaths, bouquets, cinnamon fieldsof carnations — priceless wealth. Today when I dropped off borrowed materials and picked up the new batch, I decided to take…
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