SCATTER BOOKS

Including Friday Flash 55 and Booking Through Thursday.
Have you had a go yet?

TONY’S MUSE

What to do with unread books? Well I suppose you have to define
‘unread’. Apart from novels, etc, Him Outside has hundreds of
anthologies and reference books. Hence, most are partly read, or
partly unread, depending on your mentality. So his unread read books
are with the rest, surrounding him in rickety bookshelves, overflowing,
chaotic and about to fall upon him, sending him to readers’ heaven.
Now, some think you can tell a person’s mentality by his bookshelves
– untidy shelves, untidy mind, etc. Well, he cheats.

Eye On the World
Writers’ Tips
The ‘Y’ Files

BRIT NEWS: Exam boss says continual
e-testing of pupils may replace written exams
in our schools. But as with all computer systems, will
it be too rigid?

HEALTH NEWS: As swine flu set to reach epidemic scale in UK,
media descends into contradiction. Is this info-crazy world
making things worse?

BRIT NEWS: A warning that housing market won’t
stabilise ’til 2020. Maybe it never should.
Houses are for living in, not
propping up Big Biz.

IT’S TRANSPARENT

Little ghostie, body clear,
See right through it, far and near,
Transparent in its spectral form,
Created from a psyche storm,
Ghosties racing through the mind,
‘Til the answer can be divined

FLASH 55 – THE NEWS

Fiction: He was new to journalism, and when he put down the phone
his heart raced. He scribbled erratically and then rushed into the
editor, excited by the news he’d just received. ‘A scoop!’ he said. The
editor put down the latest celebrity snaps and read the notes. Then,
looking up, he said: ‘News? How quaint.’

A YEARNING

I want it, I need it, must have it now,
To my desires I always bow,
Yearnings simply get out of control,
Willpower, commonsense, cannot console;
This is the story of so many of us,
Demands causing so much fuss,
Which is why the media is about satisfying desire;
They’ve got us hooked – our souls for hire

© Anthony North, July 2009

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