Painting by Leon Spilliaert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Spilliaert

#vss365 #scene #story

I called to the sea like it was a lover. She answered in rhythm, not words. The scarf around my neck caught her blown kiss, and at #last, my heart opened.

Rex from Toy Story sums up my brain patterns right now by throwing his tiny arms up in the air and quoting George McFly: "I just don't think I can take that type of rejection."

Getting real close to finishing a coming of age fantasy horror novella and am starting to get those jitters. You know the ones. They come on when you're not sure if you've put in the Konami code of editorial approval or not. Like, I like it. I think it's sound. But...what will x think?

#publishing

Would love to see the return of this genre. I think bold, epic science fiction has had its stage for a while now. Would be nice to see sweeping zaniness catch on again.

Can't really say 'all you rock stars' but mean it fully. It's probably something to do with the theory of weak ties but #writesky is such a chill, welcoming, drama-free bunch of online folk. Everyone? Pat yourselves on the back.

Daydreaming while listening to music is pretty normal, but I also crush it at cackling to myself at my 9-5 like a maniac in a sudden and unsettling fashion.

Going to rep the guys who have recently accepted some of my shorts in order to get a few people lost on their websites looking for me:

www.moonlitgetaway.com
dielaughingmag.com (Issue 6--pending.)
instantnoodleslitmag.com

Thanks for this November writing challenge!

©️ Cristian Berga

Collage #1423
Qué necesidad tiene un soldado?

Had a Modest Mouse one that died in a tragic bleach accident. (It was only my favorite because it was one of the few I could budget to buy at a concert, and all said I should've gotten the Patty Smyth one instead.)

Snowy gull wings beat
my crisps make a swift retreat
into my pocket.

#haiku #wildwalkprompt

Back when I was a kid there were these collectible endangered animal dossiers with glossy covers and animal facts I'd get in the mail from a relative every holiday. I'm reminded of them because I'd love to see a version that was just people you encounter on the bus, etc.

'Sympathy for the Devil'

Thanksgiving as a concept is a good one, although my thanks will always necessarily be secular, and given to good company, good will, and the multifarious ways we each bring forward our respective humanity. We are a wondrous, stupid species and we should be thankful that we can perceive at all.

Don't think you can go wrong with Sky Hopinka. Visual artist who combines videography, painting and still photography with spoken word.

Favorite thing to do during winter breaks over my grandmother's was rub the leaves of all the plants in her little sunroom and breathe in the scent of mulled apple cider from her kitchen.

As someone in a female dominant career that supports a male dominated trade, I'd like to underscore this, add asterisks, and maybe some interactive firework sparkle text to cosign.

Not weighing in on the Star Wars stuff because even the absurdly indulgent ST: V is better than most Star Wars movies in terms of plotting, pacing, etc. What SW has always had over ST is sex appeal in the form of gorgeous visuals.

#IsaidwhatIsaid

Yea when the barb's smacking dead in the middle of the bullseye of your present emotional state, and nay when it's off by a few hundred yards. Definitely need quotes that seek my level of moodiness.

The oft-covered While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

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If senator and astronaut Mark Kelly gets recalled to active duty for a kangaroo court martial we should be allowed to send Pete Hegseth up into space in a convertible car.

*waves*

It's true that without a juggernaut publisher behind an author it's very easy to slip into obscurity under the flotsam of everyone else's writerly aspirations. Still can't get on board with being my own sign spinner 24/7, especially on social media with so much dead internet around.

Everyone has something other than the dead squid I have attached to my head, because honestly, it's nice to have the fantasy of functional hair. Most of the heroines are curly though.

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Red and green velvet
Poinsettia leaves touching
My cold fingertips.

#wildwalkprompt #festive #haiku

Needed money and apparently can do what I'm paid to do hourly well enough to be well paid. Now, when it comes to that thing that sometimes nets money (writing), well, I've been doing it forever and it's a fun outlet and sometimes I get paid. Seems a win-win.

Unserious> insincere any day for me. There's a lot of production in what should be basic human interactions. :/

Print featuring a sunrise or sunset with a white gold low sun creating long shadows from the tree trunks, in silhouette, in a forest, on a frosty purple and white forest floor

The work of contemporary Northjmbrian printmaker Rebecca Vincent ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers

The Theory of Everything Else. It's practically a comfort read at this point.

Sometimes being anywhere on the internet just feels like a series of interpretive dances with bots.