Tiah Beautement's Blog, page 86

On self-awareness

I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am. - Carrie Fisher

On 36

Eighteen of my years were lived in my parents' home. Now eighteen of them have been lived in homes of my own making. - myself

On The New Girl

S.L. Grey, The New Girl - One good thing about becoming a blue-collar worker at the age of thirty-eight is that he feels a righteous resentment towards the managing classes. - - The kids' room is unnaturally neat...as if the child's a short-term guest in this lavish room. ...The only hint of the boy's personality is a row of comic-hero figurines lining a clean, white shelf above a desk. - - If the advertisements are a true reflection of a society in the node, then female browns always eat yogurt together. - - The Mothers always ask the same question...

On Hallelujah

On The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

Fainnie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion - Sookie, honey, I've known your mother all my life, and the problem with Lenore has always been trying to figure out what behavior is just 'delightfully eccentric' and what's 'as batty as hell.' - - Yesterday, I was a Southern Methodist English person, and today, I'm a Polish Catholic person with an unknown father.' - - 'Thanks again for your service, good luck, and happy landings.' Fritzi sat there and thought to herself, 'Well, that's a hell of a note.' - - After the war was over, the WASP records were...

On living

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ― Nelson Mandela It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world. - Nelson Mandela

On the beauty of everday

I wanted to reopen the beauty of literature. For me, writing is dynamic – every action has depth, and is worth describing in its entirety. When you write about someone taking a bath, for instance, you have to see and show it for what it is, and a bath can be something quite magnificent at different times in your life. There’s no other medium, apart from fiction, that can do justice to that moment. I wanted to help the reader see the beauty in everyday things. - Karen Jayes, O Magazine 'A Life-Giving Force'

On The Blacks of Cape Town

C.A. Davids, The Blacks of Cape Town - After a bath, and a deathly sleep on a mattress that had been softened with the bodies and sins of countless people, Isaiah awoke to a new life and a new name. - - 'I ride the trains most days,' the stranger persisted. 'You never know who you will meet. Like you, who knew I would met you today?' he said, and waited. - Eventually Bart did learn to keep his untidy thoughts where they could not be seen. So Bart grew alone and the history inside of him found no exit,...

Feast, Famine & Potluck now in Paper and Ebook

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Feast, Famine & Potluck now available on Smashwords

Feast, Famine and Potluck: A Short Story Day Africa publication Short Story Day Africa is pleased to announced that Feast, Famine & Potluck has been pre-released on Smashwords. Purchase your ebook* by clicking HERE. Feast, Famine & Potluck edited by Karen Jennings. A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora – here Short Story Day Africa has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions,...