Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

I've had a couple of fushigi after I have been 'enlightened' by your blog :P The most memorable experience even involves your blog post last December 27, 2012, I think :)

OMG, my blog has had the audacity, the temerity, to have created an enlightenment. Be still my racing heart. Now I truly don't know whether to smile with happiness, or cringe at the wanton destruction my words may have sparked.

And you read it? Oh frabjous day, callooh callay. It is the small things.

Leslie, if your reading my blog participated in a fushig with you, I would be more than happy to edit the blog to include it. Just give me the details.

And, now even funnier. After your comment I went and visited that forgotten blog. Well, is this a fushigi or not? In that blog I included some of my Haiku, a series of 'stanzas'. Well, the first stanza reads

The dead pan mourner
Lightened her lips with the taste
Of pressed apple skins.

This I find funny because the last Haiku I wrote today was about a dead-like princess having been poisoned by an apple pie. Just sayin'! It is amusing.

Lol! I sent you a message, but please don't include it haha it's not worthy :))

fushigi?

Fushigi is, well,
sort of like calamari,
but without the squid.

Lol! I was trying to write something to follow the apple pie, but after reading that, I forgot what I was supposed to write.

Good morning, M! Hi, Jim! :)

Good morning, Leslie!

I’d thought of baking
a synchronicitous pie,
but coincidence

left me with, instead
of the peach that I had hoped,
a fushigi quince.

hi guys! don't know where to share this... i got a really nice email this morning from a South African editor who is in France - he wants three poems of mine to appear in a special edition of Bacchanales - need to check the spelling - they will translate the poems to French so I won't even be able to read it. I won't get paid except for two copies. the translators will. then it got me thinking... some of you guys know french, and write in french... get where i'm headed? but i don't know if they've already done the translations or how how much they pay. was just thinking i'd rather have one of you guys translate and get paid hahahaha :) perhaps something really small, if they agree to this idea of mine. sorry for the breathless post. i'm still shocked and ecstatic. Jim in French!!!! hahaha... ok, back to fushigi/haiku... sorry for the intrusion. :)

hi M, Leslie, Belly, Ryan, Guy, Lilian... just the names I can see on this page... :) .. hi to others as well... yeah, stopping the ramble. too happy is not good for me.

Congratulations, Jim! When you get published in French, that’s when you know you’ve made it. Look what it did for Edgar Allan Poe! I think Guy knows French.

Wow, Jim! Congratulations! :)

Thanks, M and Leslie! I haven't mentioned to the editor about this harebrained (is that the right way of saying that? never used it before) idea of mine... maybe I should ask first. I wonder if my poems sound better in French... (picturing Juliette Binoche - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/38142... reading them... aaargh!)

Fantastic news, Jim! So very happy for you!

Jim, that's awesome! Congratulations!

Thanks, Ryan and Kat! I think I just got lucky. I became friends with a South African editor/poet who happens to be friends with this editor in France. :) I'm also getting my first print exposure here in SA... just waiting for the official email before I say anything else. :) Thanks, guys!

I think you make your own luck in life, Jim. And, in this instance, your 'luck' is backed up by a seriously talented set of writing chops. Look out France ;)

I’m for anything that involves Juliette Binoche.

Jim, congratulations. And this comes to me not as a surprise but as the natural progression of your incredible writing talent. I am jumping for joy for you! Or, as a friend likes to describe it, doing the Snoopy dance.

As to the translation, Belly is correct. They will have their own translator(s). And while I can read a smattering of French, it is my second language constrained by having come from a long ago high school education and one university class. So no competent translation would come from me.

Funny, me and French. When I was taking it in university, one Sunday I had the rare free time to watch a rarely broadcast contemporary French movie. 'At last,' I thought. 'I will get to hear some not on an audio tape French.' The movie was silent, without even inter scene text. I laughed. And decided not to take the study of French seriously after that. That, and a few other things suggested I wasn't fated to be fluent in Fench.

Loving is hard
Why can't anyone see?
I do exist
Though it's hard to believe
Can't anyone relate?

Jim Pascual Agustin wrote: "fushigi?"

Jim, if you are curious, here is the link to my description of a fushigi .

One of the most interesting ones I've blogged is Half Face.

Belly, Ryan, and Guy, thank you!

You are probably right, Belly. And Guy, this...
When I was taking it in university, one Sunday I had the rare free time to watch a rarely broadcast contemporary French movie. 'At last,' I thought. 'I will get to hear some not on an audio tape French.' The movie was silent, without even inter scene text. hahahaha!

And thanks for the fushigi links... will try to read them later. Very interesting so far. :)

...edited... love the Snoopy dance, Guy!

... Ryan, don't tell anyone how much I paid you to say that. I'm broke now. :P

M wrote: "I’m for anything that involves Juliette Binoche."

M! :P

Here's my effort off of Lilian's excellent Haiku. You may not want to read if you blush easily.


it's hard being a man

He was embarrassed
At what being a man meant.
To be hard or not.

*raised eyebrow* that's...well...what word am i looking for?

Flabby midlife makes
a bard strangely nostalgic
for times that were hard.

Alex, don’t laugh at that. I can’t believe I posted it. It’s awful. It’s disgraceful. I’m simply appalled, not to mention shocked. Simply shocked.

[[RotFL!]] M, that is sooooooo funny!
I hope such doggerel as I've written does NOT become a standard! But, of course we are living in the age of rich housewives and such, so I guess anything is possible.

What’s more alluring,
more moansome, than a housewife
who’s rich and lonesome?

You know me too well.

Still laughing M. That may have set a new standard.


when the flesh is weak...

The lonely housewife
took a hard look at her self
in the hard mirror.
'It would seem,' she thought out loud,
'that I need an electric toy.'

Hahha!

Hysteria


Google pointed her
to the casting directors
of Hysteria.

Ajay! Hi!

This latest turn-of-thread is very good. The usual suspects at their finest. It is only a matter of time before a certain beloved actress appears...

Hello, R! How are you?!

Don't mention it Ryan...

M, 5283 is fantastic!

Sorry, Leslie :( haha

Good thanks Ajay, except I'm sore from laughing so much. You? Great haiku, too.

Thank you, Ryan!

I'm fine, R. Thank you! (This thread never fails to amuse me) :)

We've missed you too, Alex!

Excellent haiku M, Guy and Belly! What a riot!

My fingers, long and
clerical, can render Mort’s
wife hysterical.

Ryan wrote: "Sorry, Leslie :( haha


Lol! I was just kidding,I should have written, I'm excited to see the actress :))

Good morning to all of you, very nice (lack of better word) haiku and it's not a surprise anymore..well..shocking, still :D

Still, Leslie? LOL!

Hello Ajay! I've missed you! Nice to see you back with your usual flair and grace!

What a funny sequence, everyone. Belly, that was so good, and a perfect cheat.

oh what a relief it is

Mort the mortician
Heard his hysterical wife
And smiled in relief.
Another night sans petite mort
On the couch with her pet cat.

Alex rolls her eyes a lot, doesn’t she? You’d think we were doing something improper.

Haha, I'm in awe-you are all on a roll. Brilliantly suggestive and very funny. Well done!

nouveau proud Jane Doe
after a look at the stiff
picks a glass coffin

The proud mirror
Gazes at the princess
She laughs loud
The mirror mimics well
A tear rolls down both

I'm all for happy endings, Belly :o

I must admit, I was laughing at yours the whole time I was typing. Your title is the perfect compliment to your verse...once again.

Lovely, Lillian! Nice to see that one of us possesses some decorum.

Memories rushed in
when the mirror cracked. Jane Doe
was an evil witch;
She offered John Doe a crust-
less pie, filled with spicy squid.

Brilliant, Leslie! You've managed to encapsulate the last day of posts in a few short lines. Great poem :)