Teenage Maisie summoned her parents to the kitchen for a serious discussion. ‘You want to marry, don’t you?’ asked mother, and then she sighed. ‘Worse,’ father said, ‘she’s probably pregnant...’ Maisie shook her head. ‘Mother, father, I... I like girls more than boys.’ Her parents sighed relieved. They were liberals. PS: This week I am … Continue reading A 50-Word Story a Day Keeps the Boredom Away #68
Berenice was in her sunny garden. She stooped to tie her shoelaces, and was about her business, when someone slapped her bum. She grinned. ‘Not now hubby,’ she said, ‘I have to water the rosebushes.’ She turned, and was startled: it was not her husband Johnny, but Michael, her stepchild. PS: This week I am … Continue reading A 50-Word Story a Day Keeps the Boredom Away #51
There was a time when every painter grinded his pigments from minerals and earths and other elements, and it was a long and laborious process. This was before the invention of colors-in-tubes. Azurite was the most popular blue pigment. It was made by grinding the mineral with the same name, which occurred in and around … Continue reading Read This If You Like Colors
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