Category: Wonderings

• August 20, 2015

  The Furnished Room by O. Henry

  I loved The Furnished Room by O. Henry so much that I can’t not share some of it. The descriptions are so lush and vivid. One by one, as the characters of a cryptograph become explicit, the little signs left by the furnished room’s procession of guests developed a significance. The threadbare space in the…
• August 19, 2015

  Joyce, Poe, and Other Short Stories

  “…watching the evening invade the avenue.” That’s from Eveline, a short story by James Joyce. I didn’t know that until this morning, when I read my fourth email from Highbrow, a magnificent entity that sends out bite-sized portions of its ‘courses’. My chosen subjects are great cities and short stories; the latter is working out…
• July 27, 2015

  Two Things I Found Out Aren’t Real and Then Found Out Are Real

  Two things have come to light in recent weeks, both of which I believed for a large portion of my life to be false, having had my youthful beliefs obliterated by the inevitable crush of growing up. Two things that have – against all these odds – turned out to be true. Venus fly traps…
• July 15, 2015

  The Joy of @OneMinuteBriefs

  I do love a little challenge. I’ve cooled off on my Slow Writing recently but have started doing One Minute Briefs on Twitter as I mentioned last week. They’re great because loads of people from #CopywritersUnite get involved and it’s good for honing your imaginationamabob. And your boldness also. Here’s what I’ve done so far,…
• July 15, 2015

  The Bellwether

  Last week I learned the word bellwether. It means one who leads – from an old word for the ram in a flock that has a bell around its neck, guiding the other silly ninnies through the mist. Then yesterday, I read it in a book – as if the universe were teaching me the…