Jilli! That is so excellent.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Insent Miss Jilli!
That's certainly squeeable, Jilli. Your stuff is both funny and insightful, so I'd think there'd be a market.
Yay, Jilli. (still holding out hope for the Bravo makeover show, though.)
Jilli, from Marlene, short and sweet:
They're legit. I don't know any of them personally, though.
Jillidance! Jillidance!
WooHoo!!! Go, Jilli!
Thank you! Now I need to drink more coffee, then compose a coherent, calm, and charming reply to the nice lady.
flail flail flail
No flailing. It's a win-win, bebe. And if you need help, we're here.
Someone please kill me. Blind submission to anthology and the upper limit of 7K words isn't a guideline, it's a hard requirement. I am trimming "Restless" like a mad thing.
Damn it. Want this miserable thing the hell off my desk now.
For the Dead Travel Quickly (Longer than drabble length. But I needed to write it.)
So many places, so many windows, so many freeze-frames. All of them seem to be missing something.
London, 1978: an apple tree, rhubarb growing, a bed of bearded iris. The neighbour's cat, Motheringay, stalking caterpillars in the grass. By summer of 1979, there will be a pram under the tree, a baby sleeping in the July heat.
Nice, 1990: Talkative sky, the sea moving to the south, cars and tourists, Africa in the distance where the storms come from. From the second bedroom, the Cathedral of Ste. Reparata, whose acts, it seems, are now considered "spurious".
Paris, 1997: a 12th century church wall, saints bleeding forever in glass. My bedroom, off the Boulevard Fauberge St. Honorè, has a tiny terrace. I drink my morning coffee there, coming indoors when it rains.
Montevarchi, 2000: olive groves, climbing the hillside the way Hannibal once did. My window frames the olives to the north; to the south, our hosts' horses drink and doze, among lemon trees heavy with sourness and grapevines creaking when the wind moves.
So many places, so many roads, all supposed to heal me. All missing something.
Forgotten, unforgiven, I pack up my suitcases and my ghosts, and move on.