#FiveSentenceFiction: Inspire
To the outside world he is the image of success itself: a universally celebrated author, his books bestsellers many times over, a happy man who has everything… To his true friends, those who have known...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Forgotten
Forgotten, or the Sentinel For Arthur C Clarke Their small group approached the monolith, step by step, grey on grey, in the rocky, icy landscape. Its surface reflected no light, as each one of them...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Ringing
The small torus was perfect, its pale colour matching her skin, its location a delicious dream, a constant evocation of a deep secret, his and hers. They had chosen the craftsman carefully, an old...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Delicate
The small boy wrote the equation on the blackboard: the symbols he wrote seemed to come alive. “It’s the greatest equation of all nature… Einstein discovered it…” On the board the symbols were...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Purple
In the dead of night I think of you. The scenery often changes: from the sands of the desert to the snows on the high mountains peaks. Often the shapes change too, and the sky from time to time:...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Abandoned
It was night and it was winter, but I wanted to see the place, our place, once again. So, alone, I followed the long road, lined with so many memories of you, of us, of time past, of dreams lost. …...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Whisper
You lie supine, naked, the image of confidence, of peace. Yet we know the fire, the incandescent light, under the veil. We know the perfection, the miracle of time and patience, the perpetual...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Paradise
To Susan His dedication to his work is exemplary, and he is admired by colleagues and friends. But in the depth of his heart he hides a wonderful secret, a secret always present, as he works through...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Conquer
The battle cruiser Aurora, of the Holy Socialist Galactic Alliance (HSGA), skipper Commander Lara Maiakovski, 23, Order of Lenin, Galactic Cross of Valour, Iron Cross with Palms, captured the little...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Flame
Flame We look at the sky: so soft is blue on blue on this Easter day, how beautiful your beloved face in the morning light… A crow bomb-dives a sitting heron, ignoring her dignified look: the heron...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Words
She knew the signs: his knuckles slowly getting whiter, his steps a little slower, his eyes narrowing to the pitiless concentration of the street fighter. But he was so young, and yet always ready,...
View Article#AtoZChallenge: April 5, 2013 ~ Euler and “e”
Euler and e Leonhard Euler is a towering figure of Mathematics and Physics in the 18th century, and one of the greatest mathematicians of all times. Born in 15 April 1707 in Basel (Schweiz,...
View Article#AtoZChallenge: April 6, 2013 ~ Femme
Femme, de Marcel Rochas Marcel Rochas created the perfume “Femme” in 1943. Suffice to say that some of the most beautiful women in the world have worn, are wearing and will wear “Femme”. Suffice to...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Edge
Somewhere, beyond the outer asteroids belt, it exists, only we don’t really know where it starts. We imagine it is darker there, we imagine that if someone is looking at Sol and her planets, it would...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Angles
Angles You are working in our study, and for now you are on your own, in a space we share. On the wide oak table are the latest photographs we have made: you, me, us, in different angles, seized in …...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Shadows
For Dominique Aury Through the magic of things written I am trying to find you: and you are in so many places, present, resolutely the woman you always were. So it is, for me, that you live on, your...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Goggles
Commander Lara Maiakovski, whom we met earlier, standing tall and blond on the deck of the battle cruiser Aurora, summoned her second in command Olga Braun. Lieutenant Braun, sporting a new pair of...
View ArticleAccident #FiveSentenceFiction #amwriting #inspiration
You are a constant source of inspiration: over the flow of time, you talk to me, your experience, your style, your beauty. There is this light in the depth of darkness, that of all I don’t know about...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Charmed
The art of the right word, of the sentence which at once tells of an unassailable truth and how that truth fits in the world: you had this incredible gift. Your childhood, the poignant poetry of the...
View Article#FiveSentenceFiction: Desolate
“Victor, I’m twenty six. That’s a hundred and five in model years.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis: Glamorama They’d cut her last shoot down from one hour to forty minutes, an ominous sign. As she walked into...
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