09-26-2016, 04:40 AM
@cvanshelton - Excellent, both. The senryu scene and backstory; the other, desolation: can words be monochrome?
@justmercedes - Absence of a certain vowel was certainly no handicap. Terrific!
@rivernotch - Maybe. Balloon simile: this exercise felt like blowing up a balloon (by mouth) - at first seems impossible, too hard!, then easier, then deleriously simple and expansive until the lungs run out and the damn thing tries to blow you up instead. @rayheinrich - Good challenge.
@Quixilated - Goblin tempo, very fun (in its way). Read somewhere ("The Secret Life of Cats," was it?) that when a lion has dragged a man into the bushes it plays with him, purring (very deeply), patting and stroking - petting, you might say, just bumping back and forth with claws retracted. As told by a survivor, obviously. Reminded me of that.
@kolemath - Clever structure, echoing the challenge (limts and constraints). 1 last air - see above re balloons.
@justmercedes - Absence of a certain vowel was certainly no handicap. Terrific!
@rivernotch - Maybe. Balloon simile: this exercise felt like blowing up a balloon (by mouth) - at first seems impossible, too hard!, then easier, then deleriously simple and expansive until the lungs run out and the damn thing tries to blow you up instead. @rayheinrich - Good challenge.
@Quixilated - Goblin tempo, very fun (in its way). Read somewhere ("The Secret Life of Cats," was it?) that when a lion has dragged a man into the bushes it plays with him, purring (very deeply), patting and stroking - petting, you might say, just bumping back and forth with claws retracted. As told by a survivor, obviously. Reminded me of that.
@kolemath - Clever structure, echoing the challenge (limts and constraints). 1 last air - see above re balloons.
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