Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

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Thank you Jim and Al, but true dreck. Serious serious dreck, as JC in another group would accurately assess and pass judgment.

(Shakes head.) Drooling? Really? But he's just a boy! (Shakes head, rolls eyes. Hehehe.)

Okay, I won't.

Hey! You're supposed to be in bed by now!

I'll be shutting down shortly. I never take my computer to bed! What a strange thought.

muted steps herald
desire's crimson approach
hot lips burn cool flesh

I knew who she was,
soon as she began! It was
“Hot Lips” Houlihan.

RotFL! Great start to my day Ryan and M. TY!

I was due, she said
with inflection, for (cough) a
short-arm inspection.

She had me feeling
like a dolt. Fumble, fumble...
then I drew my Colt.

A crowd gathered, drawn
by the sounds as I let her
have it, all six rounds.

After a wild, tent-
shaking romp, we slithered, dazed,
back down to the swamp.

LoL!

Thanks, Guy! Ryan's was such a blast, and so adroitly written, that the temptation to follow it was irresistable.

Yes indeed! Such a great start to my work day! And now, to work I return.

Alex! Wow! That’s a knockout, and you’ve got the rhyme down perfectly.

I'm still laughing, M! So very witty, well done! And very well followed, Al! Excellent stuff :)

As my right-hand-blue
crossed her left-foot-green, our lips
met, somewhere between...

:D

That’s excellent, Ryan! I look forward to following these.

Thanks, M :)

M, Alex, Ryan, wow! These are delightful! Amazingly funny and right on.


The naked twister
ended when face-red landed
near hairy butt-blue.

Haha, that is brilliant, Guy. Fantastic and very funny :) Thanks, too!

Hello Ryan! Thank you, but it doesn't even touch yours, Al's and M's. 3920 is so elegant and funny and Haiku at the same time. Truly well written!

Butt-blue poured wine and
fanned the flames. The old hi-fi
and played Hairy James.

Belly, fantastic! M, so funny! Hairy James, indeed! LoL!

The fed forty-five
gave hi-fives to Etta, Brown,
John's Big Legs, Tight Skirt.

Wry cooties and kats
are hitting the road with Jack
who chucked his berries.

Thank you.

Hi Al! Have you listened to Ry Cooder's soundtrack to Paris, Texas? There is some truly exquisite music in it.

These are some nice haiku's guys :D

Guess what? National Haiku Writing Month is over :( I'm going to be posting each haiku I wrote in my writing folder, if anyone is interested.

Kat, nothing stopping you from extending it another 31 days! I've done several of them, but forgot about it for this year.

Haha, well, the main project I'm doing this year is called the Glory Be! Project, and the goal is you write once a day, every day, for a whole year. So I'll still write haiku's but it won't be every day, haha :D

But you already do that, I am sure!

Yeah; the second part of the project is to record it, and at the end of the year, everyone who participated can trade notebooks :D

Oh! You mean actual pen on paper writing! Wow! I didn't know anyone still did that.

(nod) That's how I usually write stuff, before I transfer it to the computer. Helps me make the words flow better, makes it seem like they're not sterile.

These are so good to read, M, Belly & Guy...really well-written. Guy, the name-play in your last was brilliant!

Thank you Ryan! I have fun playing with those kinds of things.

Kat, I have discovered that, at least for myself, that writing with the computer helps vitalize and vivify my writing. It is fascinating just how differently each individual approaches and expresses their own creativity.

*highfive*

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Do you not like handwriting? Or is it something like you can't read it once you're finished? XD

LoL! The exact opposite. I love LOVE handwriting. I spent hours and hours doing handwriting scales when I was studying and practicing calligraphy. For example, here's a link to a sample of my calligraphy.

No, what has happened is that I can think and express more easily with the computer and keyboard than pen and paper because of the ease with which I can move text. That ease has freed me from feeling that each word has a kind of weight or rigidity. Thus writing with the computer for me has become far less uni-directional, perhaps approaching multi-dimensionality, even if my ideas are forced by the limitation of words towards singularity. In a way, the computer has allowed my method of circular thinking and inter-contextuality to be more easily expressed.

But I sure miss doing the calligraphy! I only do it for cards and things, now. I did one last night for a friend whose husband died last weekend at the age of 57!

Yes, 57 is a few years more than me, and younger than my wife, so it is shockingly young!

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Belly, this is bizarre and funny, and interesting and unique.

And what makes this young death doubly shocking, is that we worked together for about 8 years. He was my boss for about 1 year, and I played poker with him every two or three months. So... shocking doesn't describe it.

Thanks Al, Frances and her family will appreciate it. Bill was very well liked and was active in his extended family and within the community. He was a really great guy.


He looked at the girl.
Her cooties were so cute he said
'Let's exchange our spit.'

LoL! What a funny image that brought to my mind!

Belly, just a heads up, you don't need to title and put whom your haikus are by. We know who you are, haha :D and if you're continuing a string of haikus (or just generally) the title is really distracting and unnecessary.

It's not a rule, per se, just something that isn't done very often, and breaks the flow of the words.

Sorry, Kat, I'm with Belly on this one. I like his titles, and it isn't a rule.

I never said it was a rule. Am I the only one who doesn't like it? I just think it's distracting and draws away from the haiku. But do what you want. I honestly don't care anymore.

Kat, Belly's titles are interesting and I see them as part of his Haiku - since this really is a thread of Haiku perversions far more so then 'real' haiku anyway.

Didn't I just say I didn't care? Not to sound blunt, but Belly can do what he wants. I was just stating my opinion. I said go ahead.

Belly, sorry for sounding blunt. Do what you want; what you feel goes best.