of Stardust and the Beasts
Poetry, prose, stories, and other creative writing experiments.
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #5 | the Nervous Poet Finds the Roof
And we have a new story for the Six Sentence Story blog hop created by Denise . This week I also wrote two sixes: this one for the collaborative world of the SSC&B (all of the participants are listed at this post on the Wakefield Doctrine ) and another one simply because I was in the mood to write… you can read it right here … As always, there are plenty of other participants in the hop—some truly great authors, by the way—so do check them out at the link-up . the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #5 “It might be even more odd if I went home already,” Aurelia thought to herself as she felt overwhelmed by the crowd that had gathered around the bar and her newly established fixation with finding the roof. If one witnessed the sudden movements she made to get up and walk away from the…
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 cups of café crème… Anyway, as this is a blog hop, we do have a lot of other talented poets and poetesses at the link-up . Even if my style is not to your liking, please do check them out — you may just find a new author to follow. 🙂 Promiscuous Muse What is a poor poetess to dowhen the muse is a finicky little bitch? I even left crackers and milkon the windowsill,but it seems that after so many yearsof working with me, the dude needs something stronger. Probably went out complainingwith the other muses,over a glass of…
Ten Thing of Thankful #9 | Community, Home & Simple Joys
This week has been kind of busy with the summer solstice celebrations and my Tallinn mum’s birthday on the 24th. Ten Thing of Thankful (TToT) bloghop is my way of reflecting on the week, showing gratitude for the little things that made it better, and reading the thankful posts of many other authors and bloggers I follow. It’s a lovely surge of optimism and my favourite way to end the week. You can join in or discover other participants at the link-up . Ten Thing of Thankful #9 First — Ten Thing or Things of Thankful aka TToT As I already mentioned in the introduction to this post, making this blog hop part of my end-of-the-week routine has had some awesome benefits. The biggest one is…
Short Story | Stockholm Syndrome
“Stockholm Syndrome” is a short story about a young woman who loves so deeply that she sacrifices her own sense of worth. I began writing these pieces to test my ability to craft stories and plots beyond poetry. While some of them are messier than others, I wanted to keep them on the blog because they show how my writing has changed over time. Writing is a skill like any other—you get better with time and, well… writing. While my newer work is much clearer and uses far fewer words, I feel this older “stories” corner is also a part of me, and removing it would be wrong, even if I can now see many flaws in it. Short Story | Stockholm Syndrome It wasn’t that she didn’t know that he wasn’t good for her or that he would never stay the night. It was that she had hope. She believed that in the…
Poetry On the margins of the First Draft #16 | Mercy
Part of my poetry collection, Margins of the First Draft—while, yes, we have all gone through a heartbreak or two, it’s rarely as theatrical as those 19th-century plays I was a huge fan of back in the day. Life has a tendency to go on. The Victorians were a strange bunch, and I think that during this period I was really drawn to their style of writing. Sometimes, it still shows in my newer work. (Authors Note) Mercy Oh Dear Lord At this state, A knife Straight into this heart of mine Would be an act of mercy Poetry on the Margins #16 Melodrama This poem makes me want to melodramatically lay on my way-too-modern couch,with a bottle of red Zinfandel in one hand and a knife in the other,and…
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dVerse POETICS #1 | Absence of Colour
This poem was written in five minutes because of the prompt on the dVerse Poets site, Get Out Your Crayons and Come Color with Me!. Unusual as usually one poem takes me at least a week to write/edit but the description for white gave me an idea… Thank you!…
Ten Thing of Thankful #7 | A Journey Through Estonia
Time for a new Ten Thing of Thankful post. As tomorrow I am going to my boyfriend’s friend’s graduation in Viljandi, I am posting a day earlier than usual. This week was cool because I finally went out of my apartment, lol. I have been cooped up in here like a proper…
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #2 | the Nervous Poet & the Azure Box
Another week has passed, and we have our Six Sentence Story featuring the Nervous Poet, who accidentally found herself at the Six Sentence Café and Bistro in my last week’s entry . The story is a collaborative one, and you can read about the happenings at the café…
Ten Thing of Thankful #6 | Family, Creativity & Community
Another week has passed and it’s Sunday again, so it’s time to share my weekly thankfuls for the Ten Thing of Thankful blog hop. This week, I am also adding some photos to the end of the post so you can perhaps have a little peek… into the things I am talking about….
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…