Archive for September, 2006
Misty and Sky
September 3rd, 2006 Posted 8:50 am
Originally published on December 04, 2005
Misty and Sky were always seen together. Misty had satin black hair and bright blue eyes with snow white skin. She stepped out of her door and took a breath of the brisk morning air. She wore a black sweat shirt and chocolate brown sweat pants with her favorite green and black boots. She sat down on the steps of her porch in front of the house and took out her sketch book. The pencil was tucked neatly inside the spiral and she pulled it out and watched a squirrel climb up a tree with a piece of bread the size of its body. She put her pencil on the paper, occasionally glancing at the little grey animal as she captured its speed. People walked by her as her clock ticked away the minutes. Finally there was a dinging sound as a bicycle sped up in front of the steps.
"Get on, we’re late!" Sky said pointed towards the second seat.
Misty quietly put on her helmet and sat down. "Come on, Mist! Pedal hard!" Sky said and they went off flying past the people walking on the sidewalk.
"You know, this wouldn’t be so bad if you weren’t late," Misty said into her friend’s ear.
They stopped at the corner of the stop light and Sky reached out to push the cross light. Her freckled cheek was red from the wind and her ears where a bright pink. She pulled her hand out of her clean purple glove and pushed the weathered plastic button.
"This time, it’s not my fault," Sky said looking back at her friend as she walked the bike closer to the curb. "It’s hard when one brother decides he wants to pee on you and the other won’t wake up for school."
"Where’s Cindy?"
"Shopping, for god’s sake! Don’t ask me why it couldn’t have waited until I left. It bloody hell should have." Sky turned her head around and continued to mumble obscenities as they rode across the street and the rest of the way to school.
Posted in Realistic Fiction
Dangerous Business
September 2nd, 2006 Posted 11:59 am
This post is not for all audiences! There is some questionable content, so be warned! (more…)
Posted in Science Fiction
The Rhythm and the pulse
September 1st, 2006 Posted 10:01 pm
“Everything has a rhythm.” Bounce, catch…bounce, catch. “The tooth brush commercials call it a pulse. But a pulse has only one beat.” Bounce, catch…bounce, catch. “One rhythm. But, rhythm can change.”
“It’s a broad category.” Turn, land…turn, land. “It can include a beat and the space between in a timely manner. It uses accents and meter to start a beat.” Turn, land…turn, land. “The beat is known as rhythm. But rhythm starts the beat.”
“But the beat can change.” Bounce, bounce, catch…bounce, bounce, catch. “And the rhythm changes with it. So the pulse is a rhythm, but not everything has a pulse.” Bounce, bounce, catch…bounce, bounce, catch. “This rhythm is a pulse.”
“A rhythm of straight time,” Turn, turn, land…turn, turn, land. “is not a pulse. Listen to your heart.” Turn, turn, land…turn, turn, land. “It doesn’t beat in straight time. It’s accented and then not, accented and then not. We call the phenomena of beating bird’s wings,”
“Bouncing a ball,”
“Controlled spins,”
“Rhythm: Everything that doesn’t fit into a pulse.”
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