Category: article about writing

INTERMEZZO An interesting question may be as follows: “If Life for us humans is temporary and finite, then is this experience we are having just a mere intermezzo? An interlude? A pause? ” And, leading on from that: “If so, then what are we pausing FOR? “ If Life is the popcorn break, then what…

The Lonely Butterfly (2) He was gone. My little friend was gone. The lonely butterfly had disappeared into the dark gloom of a forgotten hallway.. I leaned back against the rusted, worn railings of my tired sanity. So what, I asked myself, had struck me so powerfully about what I had just witnessed? What was…

The lonely butterfly (Part 1)

BOUNCE (1) “This story was inspired by… “ Why does this phrase annoy me? Why should I allow five little words to make me contemplate a headlong rush to the nearest barf bag? It doesn’t seem right to have such a strong reaction. I should be more philosophical, and lead a more contemplative life. I,…

(I originally wrote this tongue-in-cheek story for “Writer’s Cafe “, deliberately full of all sorts of technical goblins, as a protest against the beatings I saw regularly being dished out by some remarkably haughty and unfeeling “popular ” writers, who sat in contemptuous judgment of struggling artists; it fell on deaf ears, and I eventually…