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The Blue Jay’s Daughter: Commelina…Backwards, Part 4

Saturday 29th ?? – Year of Elders, 1967 – The Village of Almado

I think I’m dreaming. Every time I look out of my window the sun is setting, but when I step back sunlight fills my room like water. I drown in light, suffused by it. Hollowed of all else. I’ve forgotten what day it is. I thought it was Saturday. I think it was two days ago when things were going backwards. The world is stuttering, or I am dreaming.

Perhaps I am a swan on the lake, dreaming of being human? I pluck my feathers and h...

The Blue Jay’s Daughter: Commelina…Backwards, Part 3

Thursday 28th – Year of Elders, 1967 – The Village of Almado

Things have been happening backwards. It began, as everything seems to, with Commelina. First, cygnet Commelina disappeared. I didn’t see her go. I came back one morning and the pond was still. Empty. A mirror without reflections. It scared me a little.

For a moment, because I could not see one, I believed I may no longer have a future.

Then Commelina came back just as she was before. Vicious as ever. And brought the reflections with h...

Late, late, late…

Eek, normally I have a serial episode up by today, but er…I don’t. No real excuse, it was simply leading up to my eldest spawn’s birthday (he is 15 today) and I sorta ran out of spare time to zip orf a chunk of serial action. That sounds rude. I LIKE it. Right, so, to what I offer instead.

This is a flash I originally wrote to sub to a cyborg antho, you may have seen the kickstarter for it, I was totally going to sub to it, but I didn’t like this little short. Still not sure if I do, but imma...

Favoured Fives…John Carpenter’s Movies

I did warn that this was coming. Took a tad longer than I hoped because a) blogging regularly is a habit I’ve yet to form, and b) trying to whittle these movies down to my five absolute favoured ones at this time was nigh on impossible. I’m a huge Carpenter maniac. This is a man who created several of the stand-out, iconic movies of the 20th century. How then do I wrangle minute differences that allow me to list, even out of order, with no particular preference, only FIVE of his movies? Hard....

The Blue Jay’s Daughter: Commelina…Backwards, Part 2

Thursday 21st – Year of Elders, 1967 – The Village of Almado

The light is strange at night, it makes the surface of the pond look like glass–but not any kind of glass. This glass has strange properties. When you look into the glass you see yourself as you were, as you might have been, or as you might be. I’m not imagining it. There is something going on with the pond.

Commelina came back a few days ago. I found her here, swimming in circles. She looked lost, just a little frightened. How can sh...

Renfield Reviews…Gravity *Possible Spoilers – read with care!*

Gravity is not a film about space. You may be forgiven for thinking it is, after all it’s set in space, with beautiful scenes of space and glorious sequences that frankly ensnare the eyes and wonder alike, and seems to be about a thing that could only happen in space. Well that’s right, but you’d be wrong if you thought that’s what the film is about.

Gravity is a film about rebirth. Obvious, yes, from the symbolic imagery of Sandra Bullock’s character when she arrives on the ISS and floats, fo...

Idea Factory…Take 1

http://www.pinterest.com/renbolina/idea-factory/

This is a little experiment of sorts. I’m compiling an idea factory. Every week, or every other week, there’ll be a series of images, a couple of curious things to research, or a news story or essay/article about some fascinating thing I’ve discovered, maybe a music video to add to the collage.Now this is not something I’m intending to do just for me. No indeed, it’s for anyone who wants to be inspired really, so here’s the thing, this is an aud...

Favoured Fives…B Movies

New things! Fun things! Lots of new, fun things! OK, well, one. Unless you found the Renfield Review fun, then it’s two. Today is a Favoured Five day. This is a day upon which I randomly pick a thing (fruit, music genre, book genre, film genre, items of clothing, shoes, actors/tresses…you get the picture) and give you my favoured five. Not my favourite, no, because who the hell wants to be limited to set favourites (although (and this is a caveat) some of these will be firm faves of mine), wh...

The Blue Jay’s Daughter, Part 1: Commelina…Backwards

Friday 15th – Year of Elders, 1967 – The Village of Almado

I’ve been growing feathers again. Tiny ones between my breasts. Blue like a jay, and red like a cardinal. Why red? Perhaps because, like Pieter says, I’m becoming a woman now. I like the way he looks at me. I shouldn’t. He’s been married to Adeline for three months now.

I plucked them out whilst bathing. One at a time. Tiny stings. Needle-point pain, the same as when I crochet with nana. I’m so clumsy that I’m used to these small, sharp...

Monday Musings…On mental health issues.

*possible triggers in here, I didn’t intend to get quite this personal so don’t read if you’re easily triggered by talk of mental illness etc*

Because this is a looooong post, I thought I’d pop the TL;DR version right here: Please get help. However frightening it may initially seem to open up to someone and say ‘I can’t cope’ or ‘I’m depressed’ or ‘I feel like I’m falling apart’, it is FAR better than the alternative.

So to the post at hand. Warning: deeply personal shit herein.

There’ve been an...