Once the world was not
SO loud. I could think—Ding! Ding!
…what was I saying?
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TK Cummings
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The Cat, the Witch, and the Elusive Password
“Cattywampus catastrophe?” Inna Walword guessed, standing awkwardly in the narrow alleyway. The buildings here were made of stone, and all the buildings reached up to at least ten stories high. This made the alleyway seem much smaller than it actually was, but despite this and despite it being well after eleven at night, it felt cozy. Or at least as cozy as an alleyway could be.
By TK Cummings3 years ago in Fiction
I wanted to title this something different, but worried that my chosen title might cause problems entering the United States in the future so this is the new title. It's the greatest title. No one has ever written a title better than this. (All titles unrelated to content).
Let me be honest. I am finding this difficult. Now, I like a challenge, a stretch, a bit of an obstacle course. “Write about the decline of the British Empire in the form of a narrative poem in which your protagonist is an artichoke” I read, and flex my fingers. “Write a haiku to evoke the sensation of sibilance using only the first half of the alphabet.” “Well”, I think to myself, “this should be fun.” But “write about a system that isn’t working”? A system that isn’t working? Now? In 2026? ONE system? My favourite system that isn’t working? The sexiest system that isn’t working? The one giving me the most angst day to day? The one giving me the most existential dread? I am, as I say, finding this difficult. I will own that I have contemplated writing a thousand words on why the steady “all on” setting on my fairy lights is the EIGHTH of seven options which must be sequentially activated to get there, because that is a system that some fool came up with and it definitely doesn’t work, and now who is paying the price, eh? But how can I write about my fairy lights when…. When…. When….
By Hannah Moore5 days ago in Humans
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WOW! Very amazing work!!