Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
No, no, you’re not thinking, you’re just being logical.
~Niels Bohr

This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.
~Wolfgang Pauli

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
~Robert Heinlein

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Posted from the Grove:
Since last week’s quotes by Piffin were meant for the Thanksgiving issue, and this week’s quotes smack of ill-tempered grump, please reverse their order … good. Well done. Thank you

Two new people follow the online edition of the Post & Review after Piffin’s work as editor last week. They will be disappointed perhaps that they are getting someone else three weeks out of the month, but Piffin will be back

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This week’s Thurs Word Game will go on as scheduled. Starting time will be as usual on this Thanksgiving Day, with broad tolerance for member’s arrival time. This will be a gathering celebrating friendship and there may or may not be Impromptu. This week’s Prewritten assignment (see below) will still be due

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Recent visitors to Wordgrove may have noticed two glass tables lined with books below the Platform. These books together comprise the novella, Noble Gabe Alone: Absinthe and Badge. It was understood at the time of the drop that there was more to be done in the way of polishing it up. *clears throat* ahem … The author must now admit that there was in fact a lot left to be done

The story hasn’t changed, but it has been trimmed and sanded off a bit. A light polish has been added in places. For those who picked up splinters and were brutalized by the early edit, the author apologizes. Anyone interested who hasn’t yet viewed it, the new edit of Absinthe and Badge will remain out until the end of the month

A brief intro: Absinthe and Badge begins in There, then moves to the real world in this second of a four part, Noble Gabe Alone, series. It is primarily an adventure story. Check the nearby scroll for a helpful reading hint

Every effort has been made to craft a story worth your reading time. I hope you enjoy it

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Prewritten for Thurs (11/21) at 6 pm PT/9 ET is: angelic, larval

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@Writers Platform
The Glass Library Table:

~Greymane: Lost Poetry
Rummaging thru old personal effects (buried attic cardboard box, an unused drawer?), the discovery of lost work; decades old memories etched in ink resurrect the past; among them, two poems

Fade Away
Thirty years later, the soul draining sorrow that foretold an early end still torments, still has the power to tease with visions of an early death

Cold Hard Steel
A hollow needle that carries poison also doubles as a hiding place; Favorite line: Love’s a rusty needle making holes and leaving stains.

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Prewritten: pajamas, shootout

~Greymane: Passion Play
The cast, a few; the stage, somewhere in space; the action, a slo-mo dance with razor-death; movie music leads the plot

~BarTalk: The Usual

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Impromptu: watchword, confetti

~Piffin: Chrome
The Case of Maverick and the Gypsy, the mystery of dangerous kissing while the heart’s own love waits at home; a walk on the dire side, a matter of time before the fall

~Greymane: untitled
Spun dizzy by endless parties and vapid games, the pampered hell of privilege and the high-life; dispensing favors for a way out the back door, going to ground with a definite purpose: find the road that leads to escape

~BarTalk: The Fox & Hound: Ghost Encounter

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