M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 86
April 26, 2020
Tainted By Our Choices
Tainted by our choices is a contemporary romance that has flashbacks, sex, environmental awareness, and a slight fixation on dessert. Potentially all at the same time.
Meet Jack. A successful environmental officer working within an industry that is so very far from his childhood dream of saving the planet, that he no longer recognizes himself. How hes found himself in Houston, Texas, where he has no one, and nothing but his work for company, he tells himself repeatedly he doesnt know....
April 25, 2020
A Restless Heart
You sure youre up for this?
Tyler winced as Xavier sat up precariously on the couch, swinging his feet to the floor. He groaned as the blankets tangled around his legs, tumbling forward holding his head in his hands. Tyler straightened up the blankets itching to reach out and do something to help, but wasnt sure Xavier would even want him to touch him.
Eating will help.
From the look on Xaviers face when he finally stood, Tyler wasnt convinced it wouldnt just be...
April 24, 2020
Dream Life
Contentment.
Thats a feeling that shes always understood but never known what it meant.
Her life, everything about her day to day, is as it should be.
She has the home, the little house that overlooks a small farmland in the middle of nowhere and yet close enough to civilisation to not be completely isolated.
She has the home life, the man who looks at her as though she is the sun and it is his lifes mission to ensure she rises every day by bringing her every happiness. The big fluffy dog...
Daily Drivel – Hopeless
Hello! Today I went with five random words: day, direct, elect, effort, and ignorance. This thing basically wrote itself!
Every day is a direct reminder
That no matter the efforts of sane,
Rational,
Qualified voices,
Those with ignorance
Will still choose to elect a figure
Whose only interest is in perpetual personal gain.
New book… soon
So, I wanted to have this thing ready for the end of the week. The stories have been proofread multiple times, and are now in one document ready to the do the magic book-making thing with. But then I hit my usual hurdle summaries.
Summaries for the individual stories werent so agonising to write, but one to sum up the whole collection? Ive been sat staring at a blank document and managed a whole 27 words. Which in the end, might have to do, but Im going to take another look at it and...
April 23, 2020
Brownies
A shoreline covered with a skin of rock resembling the surface of brownies.
If I trip and fall, will my pale skin be mistaken for custard, or cream, and served up as a delicacy?
If I slip and stumble, landing in rockpools up to my knees,
Will I be mistaken for bramble jelly or strawberry jam, and served up on scones for afternoon tea?
© M K Lee
Daily Drivel – Shadow
Hello! Todays word was shadow:
Out of the corner of his eye, Declan sees it; a small, prowling black shape slinking across the floor in approach. Declan keeps his focus on the laptop screen in front of him determined not to show his awareness, just like he does with his own cat, Smudge, when he wants to practice stalking. This thing is even more skittish than Smudge is, which Declan hadnt thought possible.
There definitely is a second cat here. There has to be. Hes lost count of how many...
April 22, 2020
Daily Drivel – Disgrace
The chicken scratch that is your dialogue and stage direction
Barely stands out on the page of your creation.
The white space is your narcissism and egomania,
Overpowering every false word you spew.
Calling you a disgrace would be
A waste of syllables and use of muscle, so I wont.
Your arrogance is like an alien forcefield, anyway,
So nothing would pass through.
How dare you,
With the potential that you hold,
Belittle, dismiss, and goad your audience,
And with your gaslighting and defensive tactics
...
April 21, 2020
Daily Drivel – Him
Hello! Todays word was him:
He loves him.
It crept up on him slowly,
Seeping into his every pore and thought,
And now,
He doesnt know how to be without him.
He needs him.
The idea of not having him here
Is a crippling fear,
Stifling like being trapped in a world
Where there is no air or light.
He wants him.
That ache that never leaves
Whether he is with him or alone isnt pain or agony to be vanquished by any pill.
It is the simple act of part of him being missing,
Only soothed and made whole when he is...
Biggest secret
The biggest secret Ive never told
Has a name like a ray of sunshine through sooty clouds,
And is the one thing to which I always hold
On to, Even when life fights for it to be screamed out loud.
Some things are too precious to be revealed
Out there in the wide world for all to see
and scorn. Its safer to keep things secret and concealed,
Even if deceit proves to be the devastation of me.
© M K Lee
