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I have started a collaboration with a friend...a sample appears here...

https://feversofthemind.com/2022/01/05/ ... otography/

I would be interested in knowing which of the collaborative works delivers most for the reader/viewer.

all the best

Phil

Visions The moon wrapped up in streetlights, voices over an electric cord. A green radio-eye glows. Nighttime appearances-- my father shovels coal into the furnace that burns below my bed, chunk, chunk, chunk, his face rises up outside my darkened window, the fire burns inside his head. Just a thou...

Great fun Gyppo. Totally believeable (unlike Narnia).

Phil

Nicely done Colm. I'm a tad squeamish, but that's reality. I recognise the classroom experience...the chalk. And yes, experience outside the classroom can deflate ambitions.

Have a good Christmas.

Phil

Thanks Trev. Very pleased with 'quite complete' will ponder those suggestions.

cheers

Phil

Hi Trev, The plain speaking ticks a box for communication. Perhaps, for entertainment value, you could embellish. The enforced silence of libraries, reading/adding scribbles in the margins, being fined for late returns...battling ordnance maps in wind and rain, all the wonderful symbols...vinyl or t...

Thanks for staying with this Dave.

cheers

Phil

Jackie, you want me to remove the kiss I'll keep it for the rhyme Cut the dash!

Colm we are talking Tudor period...a most conveniently swift demise...or so twas his surmise

https://www.tudorsociety.com/4-june-155 ... y-robsart/

Thanks both

cheers

Phil

Thanks Jackie and Dave. Still picking the scab. Perhaps it is time to mention the c word.

cheers

Phil

Design will pleasure her: these borders of thyme, those beds of marigold. It was a scented, moonless night his Lady fell down the stairs. He is bold. No wifely tear worries deceit. No courtier's gossip nettles fret. This counterfeit strides, safe inside, no malodorous reveal. No regrets. He plays wi...