Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

LOL!
I couldn't help myself. Unlike you, M, I have seen Emily in several movies and she is a delight to watch and, like a good actor, a bit of a chameleon. Two of her movies you would, I think, enjoy are: Sunshine Cleaning and, even better, The Adjustment Bureau.

She's also very funny as the woman who reforms an assassin in the British movie Wild Target. Hmmm. She was also fun to watch in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

And, in the end, the name Blunt has so much poetical metaphorical possibilities that it is hard to resist. (I wonder if people Googling Blunt stumble into 'our' Haiku chains?)

I like Adjustment Bureau :)

Wouldn’t it be curious if the W.S.S. got “discovered” because of Emily Blunt?

Leslie wrote: "I like Adjustment Bureau :)"

Me too, very much. During the credits I wound of saying 'Aha! I knew it!' to my wife. 'This was based on a Philip K. Dick story!' Dick was perhaps my favourite author when I was a teen.

@ M. Yes, it would. Can you imagine if she mentioned it on a Leno or Letterman interview? RotFL!

Hmm, I don't know Philip K. Dick, I was still a baby when he passed away :P I'll try to read Adjustment Team, if I can find a copy.

So many books! So little time. Can you imagine, there existed a time when there were so few books actually published that it was possible to read everything in print before dying? Dick's books are unusual. The movies from them have a certain feel. For example, Blade Runner comes from Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? And Minority Report is from a Dick story.


Her thinking was wrong.
She went to her mom's bureau
To brush out bad thoughts.
And with the long soothing strokes
found that she'd been adjusted.

I agree with the little time. Yesterday, a friend wanted me to buy a book about creative writing, instead of looking for that book, I ended up buying 3 novels, which I'm not sure if I'll find time to read.

Wow, Guy! The verse in #4449 is stunning.

Thank you M!

@ Leslie: and why read about creative writing when you are doing it, anyway? LoL! I remember, about 25 years ago now, when I realized I would die before I'd read all the books I wanted to. It is a sobering thought, and I began to chose far more carefully what I picked up to read.

Guy wrote: "So many books! So little time. Can you imagine, there existed a time when there were so few books actually published that it was possible to read everything in print before dying? Dick's books are ..."

He was good. In all fairness, I like Minority Report and Paycheck too. I'm not sure if I've already watched Blade Runner.

Guy wrote: "Thank you M!

@ Leslie: and why read about creative writing when you are doing it, anyway? LoL! I remember, about 25 years ago now, when I realized I would die before I'd read all the books I wante..."

I don't know, as a reference? haha

I think I should start being careful what to read too, thank you for the reminder :D

Blade Runner is very high up on my list of to be watched movies. Perhaps even top 20. The only thing I didn't like too much about it was the sound track.

What thread are we in?

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What was it with Dick?
He claimed to write of futures
That could have been true.
His nightmare a form of truth
from which we derive pleasure.

His nightmare a form of truth
from which we derive pleasure.

This is sad.

"I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards,"

I can't write anything now :)

I see that it’s getting dark outside. Good night, Leslie and Guy!

Goodnight, M!

Goodnight, M.

Yes, it is sad. Odd, my having written that earlier had a fushigi element to it, because the movie The Hunger Games was on the movie station tonight when I got back home with pizza.

When I first came to this thread, I've read the word fushigi a lot of times, without the slightest idea what it means, until I read your blog.

Oh? You read my blog? Thank you!

Alas, I have been neglecting it of late. But if you would like to read a most remarkable fushigi, read The Half Face.

Wow, that's weird and yes, remarkable.

Funny, I became more conscious of the things around me.

I felt her nails. I
clutched her dark hair. She writhed. Oh,
the sounds she did make!

My wife muttered, “It’s
just a nightmare,” and shook me
till I was awake.

hahahaha too early, M!

I tried going back
to sleep, to continue the
interrupted dream.

Instead, I was brought
to Mars, having coffee with
a green-eyed Martian.

Good morning, Leslie!


He kept cracking jokes,
had an ace up his sleeve. He
offered me smokes,
said his name was Steve. Well, I
wasn’t sure what to believe.

Good morning, M! Have a nice day :)

He kept on batting
his eyelashes as he laughed
at his silly jokes.

I thought of punching
him, if it were not for his
minions on duty.

Steve’s minions were blonde
bombshells. I tried to resist
their quickly cast spells.

Good morning and very funny M & Leslie!

Thank you, Guy!

The blonde bombshell has too much exposure already, not good for your health, M :P

Good morning!

Steve invited me
for dinner but I refused.
One of the minions
threatened to turn me into
a pink, tattoo-covered toad.

Oh, I was walking
down the road and saw a pink,
tattoo-covered toad.

This strange creature croaked
to me, “A kiss will turn me
back into Leslie.”

Have you ever heard
a toad talking? I shook my
head and kept walking.

LOL!
Poor Leslie, she has yet to find her prince charming!

Ah, yes! And now the haiku thread is likely off on yet another adventure.

Hahahahahaha M, I thought this was your dream?

I have to admit, I was getting kind of tired of blonde bombshells and Steve Martian and his minions.

harhar fine..hmmm, let me see..

Since M ignored the
poor little toad, a fairy
whispered to him in
his sleep, "When you wake up you'll
turn into a purple dwarf."

:))

A rock n roll youth
has left me tat-toad too. Ink
kissed, forgotten dreams.

Wow, nice, Ryan :))

Thanks, Leslie! It's not, really but it's the first one I've managed to squeeze in between you and Quick-Draw McM! I can't keep up with your very enjoyable verse :)

Oh, I'm just following M's lead (which, most of the time is very difficult to do) and look what happened, Leslie turned into a toad tsk tsk :)

The girl of my dreams
kissed me. I thought-"lucky me!"
She closed her sweet eyes
then whispered some words-"I hope
this works, hope nobody sees!"

But nothing happened.
The girl cried, she was still cursed.
Then Steve the Martian
appeared and said, "No, not kiss.
He should do, the gangnam dance."

His conscience carried
a heavy load. How he cursed
that moment he rued!

He’d transformed his friend
Leslie into a toad--a
toad, pink and tattoed!

The toad was gone. He’d
searched high and low and wondered
just what he should do.

Even the red sky
seemed to know he’d lurked too late
for writing haiku.

Lol, it's wonderful, M :)

The toad decided
to dye her body the shade
of neon orange.

She went into a
parlor but then came out with
permed lashes instead.

* sorry it's silly :D

RotFL! Thank you for a great start to my day. Still laughing!

M was quite a ways
down the road when he read of
poor Leslie’s strange fate,

in the newspaper:
“. . . now a permed-lashed toad . . .” M sighed
and leaned on a gate,

knowing too well that
the thing he must do was the
thing he most dreaded.

First he’d slug a drink
or two, he thought, as back up
the road he headed.

PKD? Post (Something) Disorder? Never mind. I just figured it out.

I won’t mention any related disorders.

hahaha

M asked Belly to
teach him how to dance. Belly
refused, he felt sad.