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Tag Archives: Weekend Writing Warriors
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 14 July (Character interview: Emma from Shape-shifter’s Tale)
Those bedrooms stand empty, a reproach to me for the ones I couldn’t save. I could have persuaded them, if I’d known then what I know now. The English situation was deteriorating fast. When I didn’t hear from them by … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 7 July (Character interview: Emma from Shape-shifter’s Tale)
Can you trust a colleague more than a friend? Both will betray you. You have to watch the language of eyelids flickering, eyes averted at a crucial moment, or too-steady eye contact. As for fidgeting, it depends what their habits … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 30 June (In the Laboratory of the Night/Vampire Variations)
By the time the last work on the towers of Notre-Dame-de-Paris completed that shape against the sky, the night was my native country. I remember its peaked roof and flying buttresses every night, as I drift up the hill to … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 23 June (Character interview: Emma from Shape-shifter’s Tale)
They say that dead men tell no tales, but I’m the one to whom they tell them. Dead men, women, children sometimes. I listen to the stories, and from certain points of view it doesn’t matter if the story happened … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 16 June (Character interview: Max from Shape-shifter’s Tale)
Erika told me everything her mom had said, how things were changing in an ugly way. She knew about the burning at the university, too, and some other things, rumors and noises. “We should be really, really careful,” she said. … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 9 June 2013 (Vampire Variations)
The door of the laboratory opens, and the man walks in. “And what do you think you’re doing this time of night?” Mina’s voice is calm, more than some would be. “I’m at work.” Her face composes itself. I can … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 2 June 2013 (Vampire Variations)
“No more stories, you said, but there are stories that are true, and you ought to know which ones they are.” I won’t add what I overheard without his knowledge, that she knows those stories as well as anyone in … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 26 May 2013 (Vampire Variations)
“You are a fool, Terence. Does it occur to you why there are so few of us, even if we be immortal?” Now I have his attention, for this is his hobby-horse. “One may be immortal in fact, but we … Continue reading
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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 19 May (Vampire Variations: waiting on the endgame)
I wait, just outside the barrier. The night is shrill with crickets; they sense the end of time and sing, calling to each other. The air wraps us round with caressing warmth, so that early-evening sip suffices to keep me … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 12 May 2013 (Vampire Variations: an offer forestalled)
“Life’s what you make of it,” she says, which was cliche when I was young eight hundred years ago. “And life is change. The only thing immortal is cancer.” Her tone shifts, into the dreamy music of the storyteller, “Once … Continue reading
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