Saturday, September 30, 2017

连吃东西也特别有滋味

生病时要深切记着当时辛苦的感受, 痊愈后便会更珍惜健康所带来的自由, 连吃东西也特别有滋味。…

这样的晚上

天气冷了,人也累了, 这样的晚上,可以盖着被子, 躺在沙发上,感受着被子从冷变暖, 最后在这温暖的被窝里看看电视,…

Sunday, September 24, 2017

He wasn't Handsome at All

  Ostra felt she had snapped like a willow stem. She turned from the village and lay on the clifftop on the warm breast of the earth, weeping, weeping. The day waned and the sky changed colour and still she wept. There Wolvas found her and pulled…

The Big Silence of the Stars

  Weaving pots was a winter job. In spring and summer willow stems loose their bendiness and become snappy and brittle. So, on winter evenings, after it was dark and her father was back from the sea, Ostra walked up the cliff to the marshy willow…

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Doing and Un-doing and Doing Again

  I realised, though I was on Earth, I had been living this past year as I had always lived. I was just thinking I could carry on, moving forward. But I was not me any more. I was a human, give or take. And humans are about change. This is how…

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Advice for a Human

Advice for a human   1. ... ...   2. Don't worry about your abilities. You have the ability to love. That is enough.   3. Be nice to other people. At the universal level, they are you.   ... ...   7. Irony is fine, but not as…

Saturday, September 9, 2017

Penguin

  Ben ignored Penguin.   Penguin ignored Ben.   So Ben fired Penguin into outer space ...   Penguin came back to Earth without a word. Penguin Polly Dunbar ISBN 978-1-4063-7331-8 …

Sunday, September 3, 2017

True Love Had Its Name for A Reason

  I briefly toyed with the idea that I should try to convince her that nothing I had told her was true. That we were more magical realism than science fiction, specifically that branch of literary fiction that comes complete with an unreliable…