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Besides Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings, my third favorite book series was Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn. Formerly a trilogy, they've just released a fourth book. Boy Wonder is reading it now.
Hurry up, Boy Wonder. Hurry up!
If you haven't read them, I highly recommend.
Book One: Across the Nightingale Floor...
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I have a little break in the action of my annual fall climbing trip. I'm back at the coffee shop in town nursing a cappucino before heading out to climb a Classic Desert Tower. So I'll tell some tales of Day One: Working Out tout the kinks.
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Trying My Hand at Haiku
sun kisses leaf
on soil’s soft bed
rapture
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canyon walls
soar above my head
invitation
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cottonwood’s lost leaves
warmed gently by the sun
patient soil adopts
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lazy winding creek
offers gilded cottonwood
a cool autumn drink
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(and a personal pet peeve, ha!)
oh granny drivers
please save the fast lane for us
people going eighty
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talking to myself
I need to give my characters their little slice of life, even if I'm a novice with the pen and it doesn't all come out as brilliantly as I'd like. Now hop to it, couch-ridden, sprained ankle girl! *surveys onlookers* "Oh, you're all listening?" -
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Prompt: Quidditch jerseys
For the Fluff Thread.
A/N: I played directly off Hez’s jersey snippet to break my writing dry-spell this week. Notice it was left on the couch just like Ron's. Thanks Hez for helping me break the curse! Maybe I’ll get some work done on my WIP tomorrow now that my fingers are clicking the keys again.
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Spidery Snape
The little theory center of my brain has been working OT since I realized today that JKR has used spider references for Snape since Book 1. Like all these:
“ensnare the senses”
silky voice
“walked in a twitchy manner reminiscent of a spider” and had skinny legs in S.W.M.
lives at Spinner’s End
“spidery handwriting” in HBP potions book
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Western Wobble
It was a full day of silliness from morning until night…
At 6:20 a.m. Boy Wonder kicked me from my contented snuggle with the comforter to tell me we had overslept. The Montrail Fun Run was slated to begin at 6:45 clear on the other side of town. This run, held in conjunction with the Outdoor Retailer Trade Show, is always a hoot.
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Sirius exhaled loudly. “I need a trip to the forest, James.” He plopped down, pulled a plate, and moodily began loading it up.
“What happened?” James asked.
“I got detention just for looking at Snivelly,” Sirius huffed.
“The slimy git,” James scorned. “Did you even have your wand out?”
Sirius shrugged.
“Half way in the air?”
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A very powerful magical object fell into my possession last weekend. Yes, I have acquired the hairs of a mountain goat.
I wish I knew how to make a Sure of Step Potion with them, but alas, being a Muggle, I will probably just tuck a few strands under the insole of each running shoe and hope for the best.
( Add one hair of mountain goat... )