Two lines from this story stay with me: "It don't really matter what's said, just the fact that we're all still there to say it" and "We were sitting sad and thoughtful, tired like we'd lived it ourselves." And it's a bit of a salve after reading the news.
I’ve always been a sucker for the zeugma: two nouns dragging you towards opposing poles, the verb holding the centre. But the double zeugma, if you can pull it off smoothly, moves you to a third dimension, the verb suspended by three nouns at the centre of an equilateral triangle in space, thus: “Tom kept losing weight and his temper and the will to live”. Bravo!
This has been one of my all time favourite short stories. Thanks for including this!
Oooh, I loved that story
That cat looks a bit like a Banksy - though I didn't know he travelled that far ;)
Great - thank you!
Two lines from this story stay with me: "It don't really matter what's said, just the fact that we're all still there to say it" and "We were sitting sad and thoughtful, tired like we'd lived it ourselves." And it's a bit of a salve after reading the news.
Good story. Thank you.
Wow, nice find!
But did you find the key for the keyhole next to it?
Oh! Finalmente, an famous series about cats….I love it…
Magnificent! ❤️
Lovely to revisit this story, it’s so sharp and evocative.
I ain't no writer nor not nuffin but I don't know how you make me feel such different emotions in so short a time.
I seem to get sadness, melancholy, elation and so much else, on such a visceral level and sometimes within the same sentence!
I've always loved this story.
I’ve always been a sucker for the zeugma: two nouns dragging you towards opposing poles, the verb holding the centre. But the double zeugma, if you can pull it off smoothly, moves you to a third dimension, the verb suspended by three nouns at the centre of an equilateral triangle in space, thus: “Tom kept losing weight and his temper and the will to live”. Bravo!