Including Friday Flash 55 and Booking Through Thursday.
Have you had a go yet?
BLOGGER BARD
Since I started blogging I’ve found difficulty in reading anything over
250 pages or so. Hence, I have a massive pile of thick books that may
remain unread. I don’t think I’m alone. We suffer, nowadays, from
information overload, with not enough time to read all we want. That’s
why I think literature will change to a more minimalist style, getting as
much info/story into fewer words. The arrival of ‘flash’ lit in the
blogosphere is already leading the way. The secret will be to do this
whilst still retaining those important elements of literature.
Eye On the World
Writers’ Tips
The ‘Y’ Files
WORLD NEWS: As ethnic violence
erupts it would be timely to remember
that China has never been a stable country,
only ever kept together by dictatorial bureaucracies.
SCI NEWS: Brit scientists claim to have made human sperm in lab.
It had to happen. Are men to soon become officially redundant?
BRIT NEWS: Scandal over Murdoch’s News of the World
phone-tap allegations growing. In-depth
reporting has a new name. Spying.
MELTDOWN
Everything fine, going well,
Makes you think: swell!
This is the danger point in life,
You’re off your guard, not looking for strife,
Forgetting that you must hold your nerve,
‘Cos you’re on the top of the meltdown curve
FLASH 55 – LOST A LEG
Fiction: I’d lost a leg. One minute it was there, and then, after
the accident, it wasn’t. It was as simple as that – just lying there
beside me. There was no pain, and I just looked at it, annoyed. It
was the chisel. Just one slip and … well, you know. What a
clumsy sculptor I am.
THE HOLE
It’s there before you, dark and deep,
Slowly towards it you inevitably creep,
You’ve done a lot to get to there,
And now, around you, people stare;
Gently down and down you go,
Above you, life continues to glow,
But now you’re in; it’s long and thin,
Yet room enough to get the coffin in
© Anthony North, July 2009
