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Fiction Focus Week 5- Heroes 5

Fiction Focus Week 5- Heroes

One of the things that turns up in fiction (particularly sci-fi, fantasy, adventure and YA) again and again are heroes- and heroines, but for some reason the word “heroine” has much more Victorian connotations,...

Featured Poem 3/11 – “I Will Pronounce Your Name” 2

Featured Poem 3/11 – “I Will Pronounce Your Name”

I Will Pronounce Your Name by Leopold Sedar Senghor   I will pronounce your name, Naett, I will declaim you, Naett! Naett, your name is mild like cinnamon, it is the fragrance in which...

Word of the Week #3 2

Word of the Week #3

Man, Cyril just played an amazing hemidemisemiquaver! hemidemisemiquaver (noun) [ˌhɛmɪˌdɛmɪˈsɛmɪˌkweɪvə] 1. A musical note played for 1/64 of the duration of a whole note. Also known as a sixty-fourth note.

Featured Poem 3/4 – “Intoxication at dusk” 0

Featured Poem 3/4 – “Intoxication at dusk”

Intoxication at dusk by  K Balachandran   Three drunken kites, swim up competing with each other, evading the algae of cityscape, to drink the wine setting sun spills.

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: The Guardian’s Chronicles 5

Bad Cover Art…Redesigned: The Guardian’s Chronicles

Welcome to Bad Cover Art…Redesigned! Where I bring you the most horrible of all cover art I can find on the world wide web and try to come up with an alternative (that I...

Fiction Focus Week 2- Villains 5

Fiction Focus Week 2- Villains

So I considered going into more detail about protagonists and focus on one small part of that- the hero. Then I came to the conclusion that most people don’t really care about heroes. What...