Even in the sealed confinement of her room, Tina sneezed and sneezed. She could not stop.
It hardly seemed fair. All these tears and she wasn’t even sad. At least the sound of the others playing on the swing outside helped her write some of the most furious poetry in her collection.
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Notes:
1. Written on the 3rd of August, 2021
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It stood by the river and watched and waited and stared. Everyone knew it was lost. No one knew what it was it was planning to do.
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Notes:
1. Written on the 3rd of August, 2021
2. This is the first tale of the second year of these tales.
3. Which is nice isn’t it?
4. There is certainly nothing ominous about this penguin
5. Everything is going to be okay.
The moon sets beyond the sea. The sun rises above the hills. Yet here were are, trapped forever beneath the unbreachable ceiling of the sky.
Selene has tried so many times not to look, but there she is again, watching and weeping at the turning of the moon.
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Notes:
1. Written on the 8th and 9th of June, 2021
2. The title is taken from Blown-out Joy From Heaven’s Mercied Hole by A Silver Mt. Zion.
3. This story marks the end of “Winter”
4. Which ran from Tale #28 to Tale #52
5. While “Summer” ran from Tale #1 to Tale #27
6. They have long seasons in the town
7. And very little in between
Sudden sun for a whole weekend marks the unexpected end of this long unceasing winter, and by Monday morning, all that remains of this entire season’s crop of snow are puddles dotted here and there on the street and in the road. And when the children walk to school, one by one, beneath the gleeful stamping of their boots, they too will soon be gone.
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Notes:
1. Written between June 9th and June 15th, 2021
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On his desktop a spaceship. In the spaceship a man. And against a backdrop of stars, formed from dust on an old black t-shirt pinned to his wall, this spaceship moves slowly through space, one photograph at a time, taken painstakingly over hours, days, weeks of his life, waiting there on his camera to be assembled into motion.
Animation was as slow as David’s life. Played back, weeks reduced to seconds, it gave the impression of motion. But in fact there was no movement at all.
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Notes:
1. Written in May 2020
2. Almost a year before I actually started stop motioning
3. Unstoppably