Neither machines nor prophecies warned us. It’s been two centuries since Earth suffered a decade of pelting by radioactive rubble from an exploded sun. During the first months, humans dug underground habitations – and that’s where we’ve stayed. Most surface life that wasn’t allowed in or able to survive died out. The rest adapted like…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
dVerse — Poetics — Night Harvest
Night Harvest Farmer neighbors join hands, bringing in the sheaves under a wheat moon while babies curl in baskets dreaming of milky warm breasts image: “The Harvest Moon,” by Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) Rosemarie Gonzales is today’s host at dVerse. Rosemarie says: Write a poem about or with “wheat” and its possible variations.
Movies, Movies, Movies! #47 – August 25, 2020
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! The Call of the Wild (2020) Starring: Harrison Ford, Omar Cy, Cara Gee, Dan Stevens, Bradley Whitford, Buck (CGI dog) Director: Chris Sanders Genres: adventure Synopsis: Based on the novel of the same name written by Jack London, Harrison Ford plays the widower who moves to the…
The Frank O. Pinion Entertainment Segment, Episode #67: ‘Kingdom’ is the MMA show you need in your life — Dose of Buffa
I just finished watching Season 3 of this on netflix. REALLY GOOD SHOW! It came from a ppv channel somewhere but has started streaming on Netflix as of July 1st. The acting is excellent and the story line is always interesting. I just watched an EW video where the cast is asked if they’d be…
dVerse — quadrille 110 — real good for free
Real good for free slipping out of k-count silk into carrie bradshaw blahniks, now clicking down fifth avenue. there — a busker bum with a clarinet. now jaywalking, she stands near enough to smell the cooking high notes. stunned, brimming with props, lunch at the carlton can wait My title and poem…
High school adds cardboard students to maintain normal feeling of oversized classes — bluebird of bitterness
From The Onion. SAVANNAH, GA—Emphasizing that the cutouts would create the illusion that learning facilities were just as cramped as the year before, representatives from Savannah High School confirmed Friday that cardboard students had been added between distanced desks to maintain a normal feeling of oversized classes. “Although Covid-19 has brought many challenges to reopening […]…
#FFFC 80 — life alone is not enough
When the people on the TV in a land far away started dying we were detached. When death knocked on our doors in the public places there was denial. When we brought it home to our loved ones, who sickened and died, we began to believe. As the killer morphed, evading our now-concerted efforts to…
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