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Was visited by a lone Hummingbird this morning on my sunny deck -- as I was reading. Still small, yet large I thought for a hummingbird, mostly deep blue and/or turquoise in color, gone in a flash. https://t.co/l7s0D4dL0m
#Violetology
"Only, it was a trick. She’d been tricked. The grandmother. She too would perish. But not her grandchild. The baby would be spared, whisked away."
#Btr2sDay [theme: children] [pic: #FranciscoGoya] #AmWriting #novel #WIP #LiteraryFiction #horror
"Or, wait: did I actually miss their bickering? Had my prior contempt succumbed to benign amusement?"
#Btr2sDay [theme: affection (or, well, close enough)] #AmWriting #novel #WIP #writingprompt [pic: #TheCabinetOfDrCaligari (1920)]
"For, I realized I must possess at least some small quotient of worth after all, or else my demise would hardly have been necessary."
#Btr2sDay [theme: judge] [pic: found] #AmWriting #novel #WIP
"Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this, my love was my decay."
#ShakepeareSunday #Shakespeare [last lines of Sonnet 80] #Poetry [pic: #Manet] [#Violetology]
"But he just balked, scowled at her -- hissed."
#1linewed [theme: loud/noisy] [pic: #FranciscoGoya] #AmWriting #writing #novel
".. my world this ghastly hour, with all that was left in me, dark and greedy."
[pic: #FranciscoGoya] #1linewed #AmWriting #writing #novel
".. I was just heading for ye' ol' liquor cabinet when this torrential downpour hit--yeah, a deluge of near biblical proportions." #1linewed
[#novel exc] "How was I to protect her from all this? From myself."
[pic: #FranciscoGoya] #AmWriting
[#novel excerpt] ".. if the blighted soul speaks to what's been blighted.. "
[pic: #FranciscoGoya] #AmWriting