Robert L. Slater's Blog, page 2
November 17, 2021
Take II: This Left Turn Feels Write
11,111 new words in the last 11 days
On
NO MAN’S LAND
and
THE VOYAGE OF THE DECAMERON
This one goes to 11.
This is an update of my 11/12/21 post titled “This Left Turn Feels Write. 21 months ago, on 2/11/20, (1 month B.C. {Before Covid}), I started writing a project I’d been thinking about writing for nearly 4 years. By 4/4/20, I had written 22 section (approximately 2,222 words each), finishing 1 nearly every 2 days. After that I only finished 2 more parts out of th...
August 5, 2021
Lose your Boots Dream
For her birthday I got my partner, Elena, and I cheap red and blue shirts and added the emblems.
I posted this to Facebook on Sunday. Hilariously enough, I had a lose your skates [socks and shoes] dream last night.
Gord Downie on one of my favorite Tragically Hip songs, “It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken, sings about a “forget-yer-skates dream.”
I often dream of getting to school in only my sock feet.
I’m gonna call this one “The Red Shirts Bad Dream.”
The post Lose your Boot...
May 8, 2020
Voyage of the Decameron: The Second Evening VI
Ray began. Okay. This ones a story my father told me that my grandfather told him about his father and family. Right after World War II, they literally lived out in the woods in what would become the Olympic National Rainforest. Which stole their home Well, bought it for pennies on the dollar
Ray grimaced. This story isnt about that. That was hard. His face lit up with an unusually pleasant smirk....
April 4, 2020
Voyage of the Decameron: The Second Evening V
Rated (PG-13) for adult situations.
On a forest planet known as Araucaria circling a star not far from Tau Ceti, Sular Berlioz and her husband, the Governor live on the island of Zandro. The semi-sentient Araucarians refer to it by a much longer name, but because they are a telepathic race, and have no written language, it took some time for the Terrans to hear their thoughts and approximate the...
April 1, 2020
Voyage of the Decameron: The Second Evening IV
Rated PG for adult situations and language.
Rowan cleared their throat and began. Strats and Toshs stories remind me of one about a young man that also includes horses, jewels and a dead man.
Pete Andrews had grown up rather wealthy in West Virginia after the Civil War, the youngest of three boys. As he neared adulthood he began pressuring his father, a horse-breeder, trainer and trader, to let him travel by...
March 31, 2020
Voyage of the Decameron: The Second Evening III
Rated ARGH (PG) for implied pirate violence.
Once upon a time a brilliant merchant named Lando Rufalo lived in Ravello, a lovely little city on the western coast of Italy, between Gaeta and Reggio, a place known today as the Amalfi coast. Despite his accumulated lands, villas, olive tree orchards, vineyards and wine cellars, Lando was not satisfied. His greed led him to follow the advice of Zafer, a merchant...
March 28, 2020
Voyage of the Decameron: The Second Evening II
Mina: Happy Endings
Strats Second Story Na Voz Dos Temporais
Rated PG-13. Thievery, Implied Sex and Violence. Spaghetti Western
Strat strummed the little classical guitar, breaking into a nimbly fingered Spanish guitar piece. This ones set in the old west. Once upon a time in California His guitar work changed up, rougher, twisting into something darker like the music of a Spaghetti Western. He spoke over the guitar as he let it fade out. In the voice of storms, this dark song falls from...
March 25, 2020
Voyage of the Decameron: The Second Evening I
Mina: Happy Endings
Rowans Second Tale: Forest for the Trees
Rated G. Allegorical story of being an artist
There was once a man known by the name of Tolk, who had been avoiding getting ready for a long journey for years. He found all sorts of reasons not to really prepare. Tolk was a writer, at least thats what he referred to himself as. He lived a fairly decent life out of what his parents had left him as the only child. He worked at his writing, but let it go when there were things that...
March 23, 2020
Voyage of the Decameron: The First Evening Conclusion
Raymond: The Truth and a Lie And a New Queen.
Rated PG. Music!
Angelisa glared at me and my cigar again. I hadnt realized I had taken it back out. I shrugged and sheepishly put it back in my pocket. Not that I even like cigars, but seems like if youve got a chance to try something that someone says is the best of something, you ought to try it.
Gianni handed out napkins and pens.
Write down the name of the person you thought told the best story.
Who gets to count?
I do, Angelisa said...
March 22, 2020
Voyage of the Decameron: The First Evening X
Raymond: The Truth and a Lie
Rays First Tale: Horseshoes, Hand-grenades and
Rated PG. [First story written back near my birthday in Feb 2020.]
I rolled one of the little cigars Id found, over and over in my hand. Thinking about which story to tell. Finally, I cleared my throat and began, Back in 2018, I met a dancer, name was Bobbie. A bit older than me, but seemed like she wouldnt want to admit it.
Jeri, my girlfriend at the time, wanted to take ballroom dancing and I wasnt against it....
