Feeling creative today

[robinbloke]

The Johnsons had parked their car in his parking spot again. They knew he hated this.
The war between the two neighbours had been raging for three years now. Lately he'd trained his cat, to relieve itself in their garden when he let it out at night, but they'd put an automatic water sprinkler there.
Tonight the war would reach a new level, around the side of the window he peeped at their front door as the first appointment of the evening he'd booked arrived.
He could just hear the double glazing salesmen start his spiel as their door opened.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I like this one!
The previous one just brings back bad memories, especially the Thompson song RBS posted...

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Sorry.

I won't put it on the CD then :)

There is something about that song that speaks directly to anyone who's been rejected (not necessarily stood up).

/me is a big Richard Thompson fan... but occasionally he cuts perhaps a bit too deep ("Hide It Away" is another one)

Robert

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I've not heard any of his stuff before but the lyrics sound interesting.

Time to go a-hunting on napster

Re:

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Hmm. His voice is not the most accessible in the world, but his songwriting is superlative.

Napster doesn't exist anymore, btw.

Anyway...recommendations

"Dimming Of The Day"
"Beeswing"
"I feel so good"
"A Heart Needs A Home"
"Persuasion"
"Turning Of The Tide"
"Wall Of Death"
"Walking on a wire"
"Shoot Out The Lights"
"How Will I Ever Be Simple Again"

/me calms down

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Doh; I meant 'Aimster'

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

I do like these 100-word shorts. Have you read Geoff Ryman's novel 253? (Online at http://www.ryman-novel.com/ ) Every section of that novel contains exactly 253 words. There's a sequel he's compiling, composed of readers' submissions (which should all be exactly 300 words this time!).

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

A strange novel indeed; I like why it's 253 words, very interesting stuff!

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

I have a copy if you would prefer dead tree version.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Cheers, that'd be appreciated but I have a backlog of 6 books at the moment and Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson) is proving a real epic to get through, although it is a fine read

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Finished that last week. Fun, but NS really has no clue about endings. Many fine authors suffer a great deal because of this. Oh well.