of Stardust and the Beasts
Poetry, prose, stories, and other creative writing experiments.
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #11 | Is it Tickling or Itching?
As am formatting/editing my this weeks' entry to the sixers pub, I am listening to one of the playlists I created on YouTube Music. Not that it has much to do with the unhinged plot Chris sent me on with her six this week, but I thought I would share it. As always, the weekly prompts are shared by one of the proprietors to the storyline—Denise—and all the other entries can be found at the link-up. Also, it seems that our Nervous Poet is here to cause chaos in the plot again... and again... and again... oops??? the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #11 Aurelia gave her best to stay in the moment as she sat on the barstool, reaching out her hand to greet her new friend—but something felt off—as if a dozen tiny legs were dancing on her back, so she excused herself to the bathroom. "Oh, it's...
dVerse OLN #3 | Web of Interpretation
My third entry to the dVerse Open Link Night for poetry. This piece is perhaps one of the most experimental, visceral, and metaphorically exaggerated poems I've written in a long time. Anyway, as this is a blog hop, I cannot let you begin reading without mentioning that we have a link-up where you can find more poetry to feed the hunger. Web of Interpretation I am engulfed by my tortuous desireto make out with a god.I want to shove my tongue in his mouth,inhale his secrets and keep them in my belly, I want to trace his skin like my favorite bookwhile reciting the lines I find most fascinatinguntil "out of context"becomes embedded in my language. I'd do so just to entertain the musethat has been chanting poetry in my earfrom the time I read faerie-tales. But instead,I have been...
Ten Thing of Thankful #17 | SSC&B & University Plans
These weekly TToT posts have become one of my favorite ways to show my grats', talk about my week, and read about other people's weeks... You can choose to participate or read others' posts at the link-up. Ten Thing of Thankful #17 First—the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. A fricken' awesome tiny (define tiny lol) collaborative world—created by some rather cool authors—that I have now been part of as a walk-in character for 12 weeks! This week, we will have a little function coming up—a Poetry Slam evening where our beloved characters will be on the stage performing a poem… I myself will do an audio recording and upload it together with this week's entry. However, it will probably happen...
Short Story | Pianoforte
This is a short story of mine born from a night of listening to Chopin’s Nocturnes on repeat. This one too is actually one of my personal favorites. Short Story | Pianoforte With her fingers lightly gripping the quill, the black ink smeared on her fingers and across the paper, if I may paint her clumsiness and lack of etiquette, she tried to write him another letter. But what was there for her to write about? After all, they had never met. She had seen him once from the crowd as she watched his fingers dance across the keys of a pianoforte while clutching her mother's hand to calm her nerves. Her father told her to behave well, for she could meet a well-dressed lad. But she only had eyes for the old man behind the piano, and it felt as if the musician was laying his fingers across her...
Poetry On the margins of the First Draft #11 | Feral
Part of my poetry and reflections project, Margins of the First Draft — What? This is scandalous. (Authors Note) Feral Oh He makes me go feral,Look at me. A kitten,A lioness,A fly,A wolf,A sheep, A lady choking on butterflies. Poetry on the Margins #11 Writers block, or not? Why did I stop writing poetry?This one is actually really good. I always thought it was because poetry made me feel naked.Humiliated.I felt like I was standing butt nakedin front of a crowd with all the lights on me. To create, perhaps, is to be a bitexposed?!?! And perhaps there is a correlation between a naked womanand poetry. After all,I amslightlyscandalous. And I can leave a grown man tongue-tiedif I want to...
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the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #4 | the Batgirl and Denise
This week it was not Aurelia who had gotten herself into a pickle but the author/narrator herself... We had summer solstice and a few birthdays to celebrate this week, and I genuinely left the story until the last minute because I somehow messed up the days. I thought...
Ten Thing of Thankful #8 | Aurelia, Coffee & Creative Joy
Ooh, it's Sunday, and I just remembered that the week is over and I should probably share my Ten Things of Thankful for the week, which has become kind of a ritual for me to show gratitude for the little things in life. Those little things matter because, all...
dVerse OLN #4 | Promiscuous Muse
I had trouble coming up with a poem for this week's dVerse Poets Open Link Night, so naturally I blamed the muse for the lack of ideas rather than the fact that I stayed up half the night and expected to write something coherent the next morning while running on three...
Six Sentence Story #23 | Prompt Word: DUST
This week I wrote two stories for the Six Sentence Story blog hop: one for the SSC&B collaborative world and this one here because I enjoy writing the mini stories with the restraint of six-sentences. It's cool and sometimes a bit... challenging. The host of the...
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #3 | the Nervous Poet’s Return
My third walk-in to the wonderful collaborative world of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. If you are here for the first time, the prompts for our weekly Six Sentence Story entries are provided by Denise, aka Girlie On the Edge, and at the link-up you can find the...