Ok, there will be a few more entries on this subject. I would just like some opinions from those outside Scotland regarding it. As some of you may be aware as of around 2weeks ago, the Scottish Nationalist Party is the largest party in the devolved Scottish parliament. The future entries will deal with the exact situation (as I see it) reasons for it, and what the future of Scotland as an idependent nation could be. So what I would like is for people to tell me what ...
It seems only fitting on a literature forum website that promotes literature, writers and story-telling that my 100th posting should involve my meeting the only author (published) I have ever had the pleasure to spend just a few minutes conversation with. Now to be entirely truthful my close friend Timothy Cottrill has authored two large books related to Pulp Collecting: Bookery Fantasy's Ultimate Guide to the Pulps and Related Magazines & Bookery's Guide to Pulps and Related ...
A person's hands say a lot about them, at least in my books. I like to make a silent survey of hands when I am in a social situation. Then of course, my writer's muse kicks in and puts my creative thoughts in motion as to what is really behind the hands. You may well think that this is a strange pastime, but it is quite amusing, and fodder for plenty of tales, let me assure you. Some people, for all their bravado, have hands that just cannot lie. And I want to hold those hands ...
My father’s house has an aluminum awning over the back door. I remember my mother’s complaining that so-and-so’s son was supposed to come over and fix it. One corner of it had been propped up using a long board. The long board was actually two 1 by 3’s tacked together. If the board was not there, the awning would droop down just enough so that the outside screen door would scrape against it. You would be opening the door, expecting the ease of it’s screened masslessness to yield effortlessly, ...
There used to be a block of stores that made up the beginning of one end of the downtown of Calais. It was kind of the “bad part of town”. If you went down Calais Avenue, to the bottom, where it met Main street and turned you’d be in front of Warrens Store, the first establishment on this now gone block. Warrens store had big, high plate glass windows in the front and south sides, and granite steps in the center leading up to a great, black, wooden multi-paneled door with beveled glass windows. ...
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