Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
~Kurt Vonnegut

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
~Jacques Derrida

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Posted from the Grove:
Writers in Residence, WG’s clubhouse will remain its cheery self, but surrounding pazs will offer other styles of entertainment. From dark and foreboding to the hidden forbidden, from loopy fantasies to offerings of culture, the siren sings … come, it’s worth a visit

A few pazs are out already, but many are welcome. Anyone with a paz to share, drop them around the clubhouse and mesa center. Click below for link to Writers in Residence, or type in, Hermit 005 (in Maidenflight), in Search, under Places
http://webapps.prod.there.com/funzone/funzone?op=view&id=10709645

Nikisunn has already dropped her Halloween invitation to visit her neighborhood. Look for the bright red box near the clubhouse stairs, with link to her newsletter for Duda Beach. Drop your links and invitations early. This will give more visitors a chance to see your place. Halloween will be happening at The Cannery, so do the tour early … really

Halloween for Wordgrove begins around 6 PT/9 ET at the clubhouse, and moves to The Cannery for ReenRen’s party. WG’s pier is a nearby must-see. Remember to turn off Nametags before joining the party on Thurs night. GoTo:
There > Customize > World > Nametags > Show none  =>  have fun

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Prewritten for Thurs (10.24) 6 pm PT/9 ET is: Nick Brandt’s Petrified Flamingo – Tanzania
This week’s prompt, an image submitted by ReenRen
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/191w42wx024eyjpg/ku-bigpic.jpg

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table:

~ReenRen:  Scroll
Ree’s link to this week’s Halloween prompt; beautiful, disturbing, haunting image

Greenie: Farmy Tale Storm
Clouds all a’jumble with storm, branch leaves whippin’ Day’s End into homestretch

Also:
Lace Rainbow (prev review, 08.12.13)
Evening A’Glow (p.r.)
Visions Within a Hearth (p.r.)

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Prewritten: wrangler, radio

~Greymane: untitled
The dark wee hours of night, the lonely, the moonstruck and the night nuts, they’ve caught the ear of a voice that listens; an airwave jockey, with a face cratered by too much life and meant for radio, hears it all … then he speaks

~Stejovis: Radio Wrangler
The radio ranger roams the dial scouting for music to keep the night at bay; the leaves are rustlers dodging the wrangler, driven by wind they escape in the dark

~BarTalk: casanova

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Impromptu: What’s in the cauldron?

~Piffin: untitled
Wherein a tasty dish becomes the poison; a life sacrificed in the cause of irony

~Greymane: A dark Farewell
The mood is dark and desperate in the spirit world; old spells, ancient rites, hoary hags, moonless nights: all required, gather at the fire and shuffle-dance; mesmerized in mind-meld, spellbound at the cauldron, a drone of chants rules out the chance; no hope for the hapless soul they usher into hell

~Jessalee: In the Cauldron
Domestic issues in the world of witches and warlocks play out in brighter colors, more whimsy and sharper menace; the magic of a wizard is no protection against the mage of young temptation, and stands no chance at all against the wisdom of a wife and their centuries old marriage bed

~Stejovis: untitled
It wasn’t the ingredients brought to the pot, there was nothing sinister in the rituals, banish even the sonorous incantations, and still … a vision of faces simmering on the surface; amateur victims of arcane knowledge, it was their greed and lust for magic that charmed them loose and pulled them in

~BarTalk: nope

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