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Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.  My new new new blog is
I'm starting a new blog because
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I've started an appendix (I no longer have one personally) to keep track of my Space Cadet journals for Space Blog. It's a work constantly under construction. Mind the mess.
I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
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Mini-review of "Invalid Item"  [] by A Guest Visitor Definitely short like flash; but... it evoked nothing from me so it's missing something. Hard to empathize with a grifter who's full of herself unless the cigar stub did some harm or made her careen off the road... something. Sure, I'd be pissed! But 'pissed-off' just tells instead of shows my emotions... and will evoke nothing in the reader. The revenge itself seems too simple, too cliche. If she had lit one of his cigars, smoked it and used the stub to tattoo her name in his flesh I'd be cheering 'go gurl'. But there isn't that satisfaction. It also seems to be two moments stitched together. The second part could be the flash with the narrator referring to the earlier moment as an 'interior motivation' revealed as she reels him in and gets her revenge. Rate? A 3.5 as it definitely tells a story. If it could show instead of tell, it could be 4+, if it could evoke emotion or make me laugh? 4.5 It needs something. I suggest wicked humor as Marla seems the sort to dish it out. For
Prompt: This brought the captain to ask the question "Why do some people seem so set on vengeance and getting "even" with others? Well, injustice or perceived injustice for one answer. Much of my anger comes out of fear. If you made me that angry I just might lash back before I ask myself what I'm afraid of and come to the conclusion, "why bother". The Croats and Serbians have been fighting for 500 years. Each generation rubs salt in the wound. The world shrugs in disbelief. But hundreds died in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Another basis for vengeance may be quid-pro-quo. It's the negative side of "I did something nice for you so now I expect payment or something nice from you." Those with generous hearts and minds who don't see the world that way may not understand. A true "pay-it-forward" or "let it go" begs tolerance as well. This prompt fits well with my Space Cadet stories so I may add to this later. 3,279 |
I have roots that go back to various parts of Europe. Some I have visited. Some influence me even now; but, I don't live there. My grandparents had roots in Pittsburgh and Tioga County PA, Baltimore and Jamestown, New York but I haven't lived there. My parents grew up in Jeannette, Pennsylvania and Okmulgee, Mvskoke Nation (part of Oklahoma)... I've visited but never lived there. I was born on Seneca land but, although much later in life I knew Senecas, I never learned the language and culture although my town had a Seneca name and the culture was all around it, albeit invisible to most. I had a Mohawk landlady for 5 years. I implicitly respected her... which if you know anything about Mohawks is a wise decision. I lived in the land of the Cherokee. I learned a couple phrases but ᏩᏙ (Wado) is key. One gives thanks. There is no word for goodbye. I was a guest of a Choctaw and knew Quapaw, Chickasaw, Kiowa and Peoria. When I was homeless in Kansas, 25% of the shelter was Native... Hunkpapa, Ponca... In Montana I live on Salish land. I know how to say lemlmtsh (three syllables: lem.lmt.sh. The 'm' in 'lmt' is 'vocalic'). Again 'thank-you'. Here, I know the decendents of Salish, Blackfoot, Crow and Little-Shell. I suspect I know many more. I pity the people from Indiana, a place named for people that were banished from their lands. Only 0.2% now are Natives. Most will never know a Wyandotte, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Miami... but that won't stop them from opposing Native rights. In salute to Indiana's KKK legacy (1920): "If it ain't White it ain't Right" Thinking 'kind thoughts and prayers' falls on deaf ears of those you sought to exterminate or still demean and seek to eliminate (Here's pointing at YOU, Governor Noem of South 'Dakota'). Give thanks? Only if you sincerely mean it. |
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