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Flash Fiction Month

ReptilesMe: I love all those birds that live in the hedge. When the sun shines through it, you can see them all flitting around in there.   
Upstairs Neighbour: Yes, they're very pretty.   
Me: I like to think they might eat up all the spiders.   
Upstairs Neighbour, laughing: There used to be an Italian woman who lived in your flat. She said she couldn’t open the windows without reptiles coming in.   
Me: Reptiles?   
Upstairs Neighbour: By reptiles, I think she meant spiders.   
I laugh. But I really hope she did. Reptiles
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The Cold, Cold SeaI was weak. But getting better. The flu had passed and I had come out of it. Not like some of the others.   
Looking out across the cold, stony bay with its outcroppings of porous rock and sudden, black depths, I saw the algae hanging there, suspended under the surface like green stars in a nebulous cloud.   
The sickness it had brought had passed after six hours of nausea. But still I was wary of drawing close to its shifting mass.   
In the shallows around me, something shifted. A vast shape rolling under the water. I waded out a little and dipped my head under.   
Its size alone was enough to freeze The Cold, Cold Sea
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Rivka?She gets on at Golders Green and sits down opposite, several seats to my right. There’s nothing else on the train worth looking at so I can’t help noticing how soft her skin looks. She is carrying a little extra weight which, I’m sure, is quite excusable in a woman her age. Not so much that it makes her unattractive. Quite the opposite in fact, it makes generous cartoon characters of her curves.   
Her clothes seem business-like but I doubt that she works for a living. She dresses in natural colours: browns and greens, highlighted with gold detail and diamond accents. Her hair fits nicely into the palette; a rich brow Rivka?
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The Belly of the BeastKings Cross St Pancras is undergoing essential maintenance. The platform is crammed with people, two rows deep. It’s hot and it reeks of sweat and dust. The stripped concrete walls, exposed ironwork and temporary steel-plate floors make it seem like a bomb shelter.   
Red-faced, in his starched bankers’ pinstripes, a commuter tugs at his collar. He feels like he’s been waiting here for at least an hour already, and god-damn-it this heat is unbearable.          “Which train are you waiting on?” He asks the rough-looking builder-type next to him. Instead of answerin The Belly of the Beast
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Flash Fiction Month

Tue Jul 7, 2009, 4:00 PM
"I... drove to the Hotel de Paris like a lord, in a cab I hired for my last fifty copecks."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - "Notes from Underground"

Sooooo...

I was out of town over the weekend and it's taken me a little while to get back into flashing. Hopefully I'll catch up the ones I've missed. I did have several ideas while I was driving up and down the motorway and maybe I'll use them for that purpose - after all, the appeal of this fantastic event was to try and come up with something new every day (in my more ambitious moments I think it would actually be useful to try and do that every day of the year). But then again I'm pretty lazy.

Just posted a new one. Might have a go at the 55 word challenge for tomorrow. We'll see...

Happy flashing flashers.

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=kaujot Mar 2, 2009, 2:54:58 AM
I do hope you're still around.

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*simeberg Apr 19, 2009, 7:38:15 PM
:D

Thanks K.

I am still around, but not that often (clearly). Haven't been writing much prose lately - all hands to the screenplay - but that's no reason to forget about dear old dA.

How have you been?

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*wordworks Sep 26, 2008, 5:32:05 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Let's share. :heart:

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*simeberg Sep 28, 2008, 6:26:12 PM
Oh, okay then. :D

How are you, Meg? What's up?

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*wordworks Sep 29, 2008, 3:08:09 PM
Busy as ever, it seems. Just trying to do what I can around here.

And you, sir?

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*wordworks Feb 21, 2008, 11:46:55 AM
I just saw your film. :d

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*simeberg Feb 24, 2008, 7:45:02 AM
Cool! How was that for glamour shots? What did you think of it?

I need to do a big announcement but I'm feeling particularly lazy right now.

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*wordworks Feb 24, 2008, 2:55:20 PM
Well apparently SIMEBERG NEEDS ME, so I suppose you've got the announcement under control. ;P

I thought it was great. Did you edit, too? It was nice and clean (and fucking funny). Oh I feel so close to you know that I've been up your nose.

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*simeberg Feb 24, 2008, 3:12:40 PM
He does! And yeah, after writing that reply I thought I should just get on with posting a journal entry before it all gets too old.

Yes, I edited it too. It's wicked that you liked it. I am pretty pleased with it :D

It's always been an ambition of mine to share my nostrils with the world. Perhaps we should start a dA trend of posting nasal hair close-ups. But then again, maybe not...

:picknose:

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