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not a story not about time travel

I know I have an idea. I know I already have a thousand ideas and if I do something to them others will turn up. Writing prompts are already ideas. A story generator only gives you something to DO to an idea you already have. Today it says 'This

Philosophy for opting out

When we turn to ancient Chinese society, we find two "philosophical" traditions playing complementary parts-Confucianism and Taoism. Generally speaking, the former concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other words, preoccupies itself with conventional

across the bus

There's a girl across the bus and all I can see is yellow sleeves, white hands and a pound of silver rings Are they the rings you put on every day, I don't ask, or do you choose the mood from a dish of a dozen

my indulgences are earth, now

it's spring again and the plum blossom is dropping messy metaphors all over my walk. I am at least a year older than I was this time last year and possibly more. my indulgences are earth, now time spent away from my desk time spent more answering time

a sonnet on capital, because why not

I'm far too old to say I don't fit in. I pay for music, have a favourite knife; I clean the shower tray and change the bin on Sunday nights - a regulated life. I'm far too rich to say I don't

Elders, by Louise Bogan

At night the moon shakes the bright dice of the water; And the elders, their flower light as broken snow upon the bush, Repeat the circle of the moon. Within the month Black fruit breaks from the white flower. The black-wheeled berries turn Weighing the boughs over the road. There

Amoretti LXII: "The weary yeare his race now having run"

BY EDMUND SPENSER The weary yeare his race now having run, The new begins his compast course anew: With shew of morning mylde he hath begun, Betokening peace and plenty to ensew. So let us, which this chaunge of weather vew, Chaunge eeke our mynds and former lives amend, The

Wednesday words: yew

Yew wood is so good at making bows that the genus name is taxus - 'probably borrowed, via Greek, from Taxša, the Scythian word for yew (and bow)' and not related to income tax (Latin, to assess) or taxonomy (Greek, an arrangement). It is, however, related to '

Wednesday words: bat names

I was trying to write 'like a bat out of hell' in a fancy way and went to find a group name for bats - I genuinely thought they were all one genus, they're very much not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat reminds me