A film is in production based on the life of Lee Miller, fashion model and war photographer. It will be terrible, although it should be brilliant given the subject matter. Anyway, I wrote this: written quasi-ekphrastically about a number of Miller-taken photographs and one of Miller taken by someone else. Anyway, for once, I've explained one. Image source wikimedia, licence CC-by SA 4.0
That's exactly what this site
Posted on Tue, 28 Dec 2021
- or any cw site - is for, I believe. Very good poem, Di.
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Blisteringly good.
Posted on Mon, 27 Dec 2021
It's hard to pull off the "in media res" beginning, but you do it superbly here. A great sense of place and character. This is exceptional, and perfect flash-fiction, a jewel just as it is.
Well done.
E x
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Reckon I've met
Posted on Mon, 27 Dec 2021
a few Muldoons over the years. Great stuff, Rich.
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Not cheating at all.
Posted on Sun, 26 Dec 2021
There is so much content on the site that I would imagine very few of us ever look back at old stuff. I do, occasionally, when I think to myself "I wonder whatever happened to...".
Nice to remember the days of the Prose Pentathlon, too....
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The best
Posted on Fri, 24 Dec 2021
yet!
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Wed, 22 Dec 2021
This funny and surreal piece is our much deserved pick of the day. PLEASE, dear readers copy the link in the url bar and share on social media if you can.
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I much prefer -
Posted on Wed, 22 Dec 2021
George George to Humbert Humbert.
Very deftly done.
E x
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Very
Posted on Thu, 23 Dec 2021
good use of your early wakefulness.
You have a typo at line 5
you have "feint" vice "faint". "Feint" being a noun meaning a dummy blow with a sword or anything else and "faint" the...
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Mon, 13 Dec 2021
An ode to robins, symbols of the season. Please share and/or retweet if you like it too.
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Well done.
Posted on Wed, 24 Nov 2021
A good read that took me back too. I snorted out some coffee at the Ianucci bit.
Looking back on the Blair years, I'm very disappointed with how it all turned out: the petty feuding between Blair and Brown towards the end. The too-...
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