Apr. 22nd, 2008

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There's a meme going about--as memes do--that consists largely of questions about one's sex life.

And? )
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No, not the blockbuster silent film of the 1920s, but the food variety.

Home today, feverish, throaty, sinusy, coughing and chesty. I refuse *stamps tiny feet* to believe this has anything to do with my food tests on the weekend. Flu shot last Thursday - j'accuse*! Or it could be just the cold that's going around.

(*) What is it with me and the franglais lately? Prententious? Watashi?
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"Do you want fries with that?"

McHungry's newest employee ground her teeth audibly as she repeated that loathsome statement One More Time. She raised her eyes to find the manager--a pale, sweaty, overweight, 30-something failure--regarding her anxiously. He could hear her teeth grinding and wondered if anyone else could. Certainly no-one had yet commented on her claws and scales, and he could only assume the sulphurous stench was being dismissed as the inevitable side effect of reheating McHungry's Super Special Secret Sauce(tm) a few too many times.

Read more... )

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Yes, actual very short fiction, more or less off the cuff just now, so I'm likely to be editing the typos a few times. Thoughts?

A pome

Apr. 22nd, 2008 09:06 pm
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London-Based Sister (LBS) made the short list for a sonnet competition and so will be published in the anthology. With her permission I reproduce the work here.

Actually, here )

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