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18 Aug 2020 3 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
An author colleague today was musing about the use of 'basic' to mean "I don't really like it, but I don't really want to think about it." and she compared it to the older 'decent'. This led me to think of the way we now use 'fine' and how difficult...
16 Aug 2020 4 minute read 0 comments M. Jesus Victor
It was already dark when he reached home, the lights of the shipyard were turned off — which he found strange; at that hour they were usually still working. He saw from the window of the house Guilherme and Gui, who dined in the company of the four m...
5 Aug 2020 4 minute read 1 comment M. Jesus Victor
Vésper, whenever he could, would go to the home of Mentesúfis in the village and prowl around his library, devouring book after book, like a bee collecting pollen for its precious honey. Gui, the son of the old man, had begun courting Sara, daughter...
28 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
Haughty and full of gross disregard, Man ascended; Deconstructing his world with blind rationality; Coercing and bending others to achieve his ends; Interring himself in a tomb of living death. A Passionless blaze fell from towers on high While...
16 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments M. Jesus Victor
The fishing village on the island of Nana had grown in a disorderly, piggybacked manner alongside the canal, as though standing on tiptoe to take a peek at the sea. At a certain point, the canal proceeds by itself with its two mighty piers like a pai...
14 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment MatTehCat
Bleak Dawn: Mankind appears as a machine; His words, gestures, actions, formulaic; Their spontaneous manifestations, The sole light that draws my ennui forward. His pathological tendencies, wrought With's greedy delusions, blinding him by The trap...
7 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
Motionless ocean, devoid of Life, No eye will ever see your limits; No shores or beaches will contain you; Your waters are darker than the void, For the depths of your being can’t be seen. The city wall that constrains us all, Protecting us from th...
6 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments M. Jesus Victor
The three men (the old priest was still asleep) arose as a gesture of respect. Aira went to meet them, smiled at Dérop and kissed the face of Diáfana. The latter responded with a delicate caress on the face of Aira and said in a low voice: ‘Vésper is...
1 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments M. Jesus Victor
… Dérop felt her presence and turned around. She perceived that they were already waiting for her at home, he took a step in her direction, she calmed him and said: ‘You had best wait for Diáfana here in the garden.’ She went towards him, kissed him...
27 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
In you, I see all that could be. In you, I see rivalry. In you, I see desire. In you, I see the truth of all that's been shown through the fire. But, oddly, it's not you, alone, that I love. It's not you, alone, that I hunger for. It's not you, alo...
