An amazing favorite from 2007:
A Butterfly Picnic Clumps of small white butterflies with black eyeballs on their wings dance in spiraling circles along the creek. A woman is watching the butterflies play but she isn't seeing them. She sits on a green and white plaid blanket. Along side her a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine poke up out of a brown woven basket. Sunshine tingles over her naked body. A breeze rustles the cattails growing in shallow water beside the creek bank and tickles the grass growing around her blanket. A long unused train trestle runs over the rippling water just a short distance away. Mottled-gray stones at its base are crumbling. A man sits on the trestle on a ledge near the top close by a metal ladder driven into the weathered stone blocks. The woman takes the bread and breaks it, reveling in finding the soft underneath through the crisp crust. She pours the wine. Raising the glass to her lips she looks up to see the man watching her. She starts but quickly remembers that he has always been there. Sh e watches the butterflies play but she isn't seeing them. On Dec 20, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if my giving away a few books has anything to do with emptying > my teacup but perhaps. I got the idea from World Book Day where they enlist > others in an attempt to give away a million books. I thought, why not give > away a few of my own instead of those of other authors? > > I never much cared for the term 'flash fiction' as it seems to accentuate > speed over quality. I don't need writing prompts nor do I wait for > inspiration to arise. I just write. > > Whether my stories are amazing or not, I don't know. I appreciate you > saying so although the way you put it has me ensconced in the past. I am > still deeply involved with my writings on a daily basis. As always, I am > happy to send you (or anyone here) an e-copy of my latest work if you so > desire. > > People ask me where my ideas for my stories come from. I don't know. I sit > down in front of my computer to an empty screen and a blank mind and in a > little while it is full of words. Most of it is crap but sometimes I > discover a few pearls amid the swill. > > Anyway... > > > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:25 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Hi Dan & Ian and all, >> >> I can identify. Have you any idea how many paintings I've dropped off at >> Goodwill hoping they'd find someone to appreciate them. Clean slate, >> emptying teacup, or just plain making room for more. Cannot really >> complain, though, I love every moment in my studio. So on to making some >> art journals. >> >> Knowing how frustrating these MD discussions can be, I miss you both. >> Dan, your stories - flash fiction? - were always amazing. And, ian, I >> thought Grayson Perry had some important things to discuss. AND for >> goodness sake, isn't it about making art out of life??? >> >> Maybe to start the year discussing the code of art might be a good thing. >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >>> On Dec 19, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Tear those books up, Marsha. Make 'em sad they were ever printed. >>> >>> Me, I ordered three dozen copies of my various books and gave them out to >>> the owners, managers, salesmen, service writers, secretaries, mechanics, >>> and porters at the auto dealership where I sorta make a show of working >>> every now and then. Most times I just hang out in back and read books on >> my >>> Android. >>> >>> Anyway, some of them were happy, some didn't give a crap, one gorgeous >>> little blonde gal who I'd really like to pork acted like a kid on >> Christmas >>> morning, and one guy told me he actually writes too... one of the Mexican >>> porters who details cars. >>> >>> Who'd a thunk it. >>> >>> I felt like I was handing out blankets to hobos. Maybe I was. >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:14 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> Just ordered a used library copy of zAmm to use the pages for creating >> art >>>> journal. Being a bibliophile it is always painful to destroy a book, >> and I >>>> have a great love for this book in particular, but what the heck!!! >> Soooo >>>> symbolic. Not as dramatic as tattooing a paragraph on my body, but more >>>> personal in so many ways. >>>> >>>> Btw, if you were to tattoo a paragraph, which would it be? 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