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PROF ISAAC GALISTEIN
Welcome to my weekly magazine post. Watch
it grow thru the week. You can opt to read the essay,
current affairs, themed mini mag with fiction & poetry, or just
read the lot. Here’s hoping you enjoy your visit. Plenty
for everyone here so do call again next week.
MICROFICTION
Fiction: His armour no longer shone. The
Knight had creaked to a halt long ago.
He blamed the Greens. Banning oil had
sure stopped war.
ERRORS
What kind of world would it be if no one ever made a mistake? Well, it
would certainly be boring as no one would do anything. Errors are a
fact of life, and a good thing, too. Of course, once an error is made, it
is how we react to it that counts. The secret is to learn from it, and
make sure it is never repeated again. Don’t worry, we won’t run out of
things we can do wrong – there is an infinite variety. But it is a fact of
life that wise people usually begin as idiots.
BRUSH
Handy word, brush. Sweeps away the
rubbish; makes you look smart. Yet it
can also add to the rubbish and make
you a mess as you brush with life.
Eye On the World
Essays on everything from science
to religion, politics to crime
WORLD NEWS: US Iraq withdrawal
on schedule but 50,000 troops staying
for stability. Iraq is a fake country made by
Britain mixing Kurd, Sunni & Shi’ite areas. It’s only
ever been held together by tyranny. Those troops will
have to stay for ever.
GREEN NEWS: A 100 sq mile ice sheet has broken off a glacier
in Greenland. Just thought I’d mention it. The main media seems to
have forgotten about global warming. Does anyone in authority
remember it?
BRIT NEWS: House prices falling again. Researchers warn
jobs market will stall later in year as public sector
sheds workers. We’re far from out of it yet.
People forget the Depression lasted
10 yrs, and only ended with
world war.
THE CRIME POST
It would be criminal not to read it
One Single Impression
Sunday Scribblings – Friday Flash 55
Three Word Wednesday – Writer’s Island
One Shot Wednesday
PENSIVE
It happened! I know it shouldn’t have done,
Future police stamp it out with a gun,
Latest tech sniffs it out,
Always knows what you’re about,
So they raided me and I was caught,
All I did was have a thought
FLASH 55 – COPYCAT
Fiction: Finch complained bitterly. It wasn’t right for Jackson to murder
in the same way as him. Sarah and Jenn sympathised – after all, they
had both perfected their own form of murder, and successfully too.
They’d feel cheated by a copycat. After much deliberation Davies
made a decision and kicked Jackson out of the writing group.
INCEPTION
Beginning to learn how to case the joint,
Beginning my talents and getting the point,
Beginning to sense how to work people out,
Beginning not to get caught, no doubt,
Beginning to suss how to talk the talk,
Beginning to not hold Mom’s hand when I walk
VIEW
He always had the wrong view on life,
Had to be involved in so much strife,
I’m told his view has completely changed,
Bleak landscape and brickwork was arranged,
Hangs around now all the while,
Review in 10 years, don’t send a file
NATURAL LAW
He had to kill – he shouldn’t have been there,
But the victim was, and now he stared,
Deathly grimace seemed to watch his work,
Opened safe – guilt lurked;
Final phase, time to get out,
He was just a thief, not a murderous lout!
Raving mind, filled with dread,
Stumble on victim – crash!!! – he’s dead
BIZ NEWS: Our economic woes
seem to be good for some. As UK banks
begin to make profits again, mergers are creating
new super companies. If you think Big Biz was bad before,
just wait for the new empires to arise. Do you feel like a serf yet?
HEALTH NEWS: New antibiotic resistant superbug has now entered UK
hospitals. Will these new strains ever end? I doubt it – not until we
slow down on antibiotic use for general illness and in food. I often think
we’re pushing the evolution of these bugs ourselves.
SCI NEWS: Archaeologists find scrapped bones suggesting our
ancestors used sharp stone blades to butcher 3.4 million
years ago. Scientists are shocked, but maybe the
real shock is how science becomes too
absolute in their ideas without
enough evidence to
back them up.
© Anthony North, August 2010
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