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Author Archives: TanGental
Life is cheap #writephoto
Sue Vincent’s prompt this week is this Tunnel Vision Liam Trevor felt embarrassed. The Times wanted to interview him. Sky News had one of their top reporters on her way to speak to him. And the BBC had indicated there … Continue reading
Posted in #writephoto, creative writing, flash fiction, prompt
Tagged #writephoto, flash fiction, prompt
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History Repeats #microcosms #flashfiction
This is based on the latest Microcosms prompt – a 300 word story incorporating these elements National Park, Day Tripper, Thriller ‘Hey Bud. Can you get this one?’ Jimmy headed for the men’s room. The car was a classic, Gran … Continue reading
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Tagged flash fiction, microcosms, prompt
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The Urge to Splurge #affluenza
Affluenza (n) a portmanteau word fusing affluence and influenza and meaning a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. I wrote recently about my weight loss over the last … Continue reading
Posted in humour, miscellany, thought piece
Tagged affluenza, aging, clothes, consumerism, spending, vanity
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Hunting the Inca: Part 4, Puno and Lake Titicaca #peru #travel
For those following our travels in Peru in the autumn of 1987, you may wonder where we have got to. I suppose, after the tranquillity of Arequipa which we visited here it was inevitable that we would find another gear as … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, peru, travel
Tagged Altiplano, lake titicaca, puno, Pweru, travel, uros indians
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Mothery update
Regular readers will know I have been keeping an eye on the moths visiting my garden. They come in all shapes and sizes and, frankly, are often jewels of nature with subtle colour shifts. Often as not the difference between a … Continue reading
Blooming Marvellous
I thought I’d share a poem of dad’s with an update on the garden Island Ferry Crisp and fresh, the air this morning, on the open upper deck While the muddy river waters froth and churn There’s a drift of … Continue reading
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Dawning realisation #carrotranch #prompt #flashfiction
Carrot Ranch is in the capable hand of this week and this is the prompt. June 15, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that symbolically, mythically, mystically, or realistically involves dawn, as a noun … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrot Ranch Congress of Rough Writers, dawn, flash fiction
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