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Tag Archives: Surreal
This is a Strange Land
This is a Strange Land. The forests are made of sequoia candles taking five thousand years to burn down. At full kindle the stars are whited out. The ocean resides on a tortoise-shell moving in accordance with tortoise whims. Whales … Continue reading
Rooms (Set 5) (Mansion)
A jet black door, furnished with grooves guards the room. In the grain orbs, luminous, dance in the grooves phasing in and out of a forest of splinters, specks of violet and saffron. The room itself is black. With the … Continue reading
Posted in Mansion
Tagged Darkness, Fiction, Lights, Mansion, Orbs, Prose, Room, Surreal, Surrealism, Will o' the Wisp
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Room and Garden (Mansion)
Room The door is wrapped in vines, splintered and cracked on the verge of collapse in the face of relentless constriction. The handle is strangled by a creeper. Pushing the door it half opens, half disintegrates. Vines dangle from should … Continue reading
Posted in Mansion
Tagged Archaeopteryx, Fiction, Garden, Prose, Rainbow, Room, Surreal, Surrealism, Tree House, Trees
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Rooms (Set 3) (Mansion)
Infinite It starts with the opening of one door, leading too another door. And then another door. And it just keeps on going. Door after door after door. The doors are of different colours, shades and materials. As you advance … Continue reading
Posted in Mansion
Tagged 2nd Person Narrative, Books, Doors, Fiction, Infinity, Library, Scrawlings, Surreal, Surrealism, Words
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Mansion (Thoughts and Musings)
Just three ways I could approach this: 1) Maintain the second person narrative and work more on the story. It is kind of hard to write reactions in the second person though. 2) Change to a first person narrative. Reactions … Continue reading
Posted in Mansion, Musings
Tagged Fiction, First Person Narrative, Mansion, Musings, No Person Narrative, Rooms, Second Person Narrative, Surreal, Surrealism, Thoughts
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Rooms (Set 2) (Mansion)
Inferno From the outside cackling can be heard. The door is warm to the hand. The handle distressingly so. The wood is cracked and blackened. A quote adorns the door: “seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the … Continue reading
The Mansion
You told people you didn’t need a map. You said it would be a short journey from the city to the village. You did need a map. Hours of wandering have left you lost, very lost and what should be … Continue reading
Posted in Mansion
Tagged 2nd Person Narrative, Cosmos, Dinosaurs, Fiction, Magpies, Rooms, Skeletons, Surreal, Surrealism, Trout
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Ted the Spider and his Literary Adventures
There is a spider clinging to the wall. His name is Ted. While I am writing Ted is looking down on me. Ted is brown, hairy and eight legged yet he does not provide much in the way of feedback. … Continue reading
Posted in Fragments
Tagged Books, Hopscotch, Jane Austen, Julio Cortazar, Literary, Pride and Prejudice, Reading, Robert Desnos, Spider, Spider With a Moustache, Spiders, Story, Surreal, Ted, Wall
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Skilpadde and a City
The sight of Skilpadde in a city is gloriously surreal. In the vast concrete jungle of glass, steel and girders the residents of the metropolis see a colossal turtle rounding a street corner. Firstly its head pokes out past a … Continue reading
Posted in Skilpadde
Tagged Concrete, Concrete Jungle, Conversations, Denizens, Forests, Girders, Glass, Mountains, Municipal, Path, Polis, Rivers, Skilpadde, Sky Scrapers, Steel, Surreal, Trees, Turtle, Urban, Urban Jungle, Village, Villagers, World Turtle
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Golden Giraffes Riding Scarlet Flamingos Through The Desert of Forever 