of Stardust and the Beasts
Poetry, prose, stories, and other creative writing experiments.
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #10 | The Rudeness Continues
I was editing this with Sonia by Mirar blasting in my ears... contrary to popular belief about music as such, it calms my brain and makes me able to think on a few continuous threads instead of a hundred... if it makes sense... I mean.. it helps me structure my naturally chaotic mind... Also, as always, Denise, as the host for the six sentence story hops, provided us with the weekly prompt word—SLIP—and all the other participants' stories can be accessed through the link-up. the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #10 "Five more minutes!" the Nervous Poet yelled at her phone as if it were her mother waking her up for school again—well, you wouldn't be surprised, considering that her creativity had peaked with wine and the obnoxiously loud music drowning out the downstairs neighbours'...
dVerse OLN #5 | My Ars Poetica
I originally wanted to submit this for the last dVerse Poetica submission.... But I was late to the link-up because life got in my way... I still wanted to use this prompt, so I linked it up at the OLN. Entries of all the participants can be found here. My Ars Poetica In the earliest of my writing days,Poetry was a mechanism to ease the solitudeof being the odd pencil in the box:it was a canvas for the bubbling rage of a teenage girltrapped in the corners of her psyche,and a self-centered desire for validation,a "look what they have done to me" ode—now buried in the depths of the internetunder a pen name nobody remembers. But I have been growing alongside my creations,with language aimed at my central lobe,manipulating the syntax to control the daggerwhile concealing my own woundswith...
Ten Thing of Thankful #15 | Technical Aspects of Writing & Why the New Blog
This week's thankful is a little different and has sections some of you may want to skip... but perhaps, the technical parts... can be helpful for some... Also, reading countless discussions on Threads and X about proving authorship made me wanna write about a few things, and also why I created this blog... and I will try to answer a question I got about it in a way I feel comfortable (10th... question itself I got a few weeks ago and I honestly thought about not answering it at all). You can join the hop or read through what others wrote at the link-up. Ten Thing of Thankful #15 First—had time to read blogs. And leave some comments too; I am still not done snooping around. I usually don't...
Short Story | Elves and Fantasy
I wanted to write a short story about how we sometimes fall in love with a stranger—captivated by a simple gesture, a glance, a small, unexpected moment. Elves and Fantasy is a short story born from that feeling, and from the quiet fear that maybe we’re not enough, or that a hello might ruin the magic. But what if that one hello could change everything? Short Story | Elves and Fantasy He sat across from her on the train he took every day to work and back. Never had he seen her before, and there was nothing else that he could do than sit there, staring at her drawing while being perplexed by her beauty. He himself had never drawn before, or maybe he did when he was still in kindergarten and just forgot how much he enjoyed it. Seeing her made him curious. Who was she? Where did she come...
Poetry On the margins of the First Draft #15 | Desperation
Part of my poetry collection, Margins of the First Draft—I know how this poem was written. This one I remember: I was listening to an Egyptian singer, and I was struck by how he conveyed obsessive love. I wanted to borrow that style, because it was so strong and somehow unhinged that I wanted something like it in my own writing. (Authors Note) Desperation What is the worth of my love If I can not paint the city walls With the colour of his eyes Poetry on the Margins #15 The Worth of My Love It's the writer’s ache —to immortalize this feeling of admiration,desperation, longing, ache. Whatever you wanna call it — it is. Otherwise, what was this feeling worth?If I can't create from it,grow...
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a POEM IN SIX #1 | Prompt Word: BALLOON
This poem is written in six sentences for the prompt word provided to us by Denise. All the other participants in the six sentence challenge with their stories and/or poetry can be found at this week's link-up. Balloon It's not a secret:my youth was violently torn...
Ten Thing of Thankful #11 | Home, Music & Creative Inspiration
Hello everyone! First of all... to those who have noticed a type of a self-made and not highly* promoted schedule here... am sorry.... This weeks Ten Thing of Thankful entry made it to the beginning of a new week because I was not alone, had a lot of cleaning-up to do...
the Six Sentence Café & Bistro #6 | At the Roof
Yet another week has passed, and Denise has given us a new prompt word—THUNDER—for the Six Sentence Story. As promised, here is the link to all the SSC&B entries in one place to make it easier for the other participants and the readers to follow the Nervous Poet....
Ten Thing of Thankful #10 | Writers, Books & Summer Rain
Oh wow, it's my tenth ten thing of thankful post this week. How cool is that? The blog hop has made me reflect on things to be thankful for and I must say it's has become one of my favorite routines ever since I returned to the blog and writing. It does something...
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...