Week 582 – A Wrecking Crew, Going For Five And Let’s Not Forget.

Here we go again. Welcome to Week 582.

Before I start, I’ll answer the riddle that I set on my last posting.

Off the top of my head –

Two letters make a male – He.

Add one to become female – Her.

Add another to become male again – Hero.

Add three to go back to female – Heroine.

Take one away and if you take this you won’t care what you are – Heroin.

My week has got off to a destructive start. One of my fiends has found another part of the house for him to wreck. He has reached up from the banister to the wall above the stairs and has began to rip off the wall paper. Last week, the two of them were picking the silicon seal off the windows. The stair carpet is shredded into the wood and it’s a trip hazard. The wee fuckers are now Booby-Trapping the house! It’s ironic that we saved these two cats from The UAE as I’m wondering who is going to save us from them!!!

…What the hell, we don’t get that many visitors!!

I’ve been enjoying the World Snooker Championship over the past couple of weeks. (John Higgins against Ronnie O’Sullivan was as good a match as I’ve ever seen) There was a teaser I heard and it took me a bit of time to work out. This scenario is probable but in the same hand impossible. The highest clearance is generally accepted as 147 (Without any free ball) but how can the lowest clearance be 44??

If you have no interest in snooker, that won’t have been of any interest and I apologise!! But what the hell, I have to read Romance and Science Fiction!!!

We’ve had a few stories in that have unsuccessfully tried to hit us with a surprise ending and that got me thinking on how easy or difficult that is to do.

If this is just a happy coincidence and the story takes you there, then it’ll probably work. If you plan it, by the very nature of planning, it takes away the surprise! It’s difficult to mislead a reader with a short. A Novel is a different animal, the writer has time and word count to throw in many a red herring and offshoot any logic.

Basically, if something is contrived, it will be spotted as being so.

..I see that someone had another go at The American president. Hope he gets to pensionable age!

…Wait a minute!!!

Just wondering, since this president has been in power why have words like ‘conditions’ and ‘sanctions’ been changed to ‘A deal’?? And ‘war crimes’ have simply disappeared.

Here in Britain we had a weird sort of celebration on the 21^st April. The fawning royal lovers were celebrating what would have been the late queens one hundredth birthday.

I have news for them, ‘Would have been’ is trumped by ‘Still!’ She’s still dead and her son is still a paedo bailed out at the time by the potentially still dead!!!

Onto this week’s excellent stories.

We had two well established writers and three new folks.

To those newbies, we extend our usual warm welcome. We hope that they involve themselves in the site.

As always our initial comments follow.

First up was our first new writer.

On Monday we had Matthew Whistance with, ‘The Painted Smile’.

‘This is wonderfully Strange.’

‘A skilful piece of writing.’

‘The unsaid can annoy the reader but here, it enhances the whole story.’

Christopher Ananais has now adorned the site for the twentieth time. His comments and support are also a joy to read!

‘Old Haunts’ was next up on Tuesday.

‘Every image was well done.’

‘Depressing but brilliantly done.’

‘Maybe a state of mind decay like urban blight.’

Geraint Jonathan is another old friend of the site.

‘Strings Attached’ was story number thirteen for him.

‘A sort of look at contrary genius.’

‘Geraint always writes with skill!’

‘This was well thought out.’

Our second new writer was published on Thursday. The story was called ‘Bullfrog’ and the writer was S.M. Rosen.

‘Slightly different from the norm which lifts this above those.’

‘Very well done.’

‘This was the first acceptance of this year.’

And last but not least was Miles Efron with his first story for us entitled, ‘A Body Without Organs.’

‘Wonderfully peculiar.’

‘Weird but all good.’

‘Some creepiness in this.’

That’s us done and dusted for another week.

Simply keep on doing what you are doing.

Keep on writing, keep on reading and keep on commenting!!

I was looking through some trivia this week and I found this doozy. Frank Sinatra was offered the Bruce Willis role in ‘Die Hard’. That made me smile, surely ‘Doobie Doobie Doo Motherfucker!!’ has a certain ring to it!

Also, Sloths can hold their breath longer than a dolphin. For the love of fuck, what sick scientist bastard found that out?

I’ve done so many of these posts that I’ve forgotten what clips and music that I’ve shown. A sensible person would have kept a note! Probably putting them into alphabetical order would have been the way to go but I’m not that organised.

However, I think on how I look at these and I seek them out when I’m pissed off or I just want to see them again. (Alex Higgins, Franky Boyle, Jimmy Carr, Mike Tyson, The Icicle Works, The Wolfetones, The Singing Frog Cartoon, Cat Balou, Young Frankenstein, Guinea Pigs, Archie Gemmell have all been well watched!)

I read a really stupid joke which reminded me of the following clip.

Even if I have posted this before, it’s worth another look and it’s as relevant now as it was when it was first posted.

Here’s the joke –

– A fellow told his girlfriend that she had painted her eyebrows too high.

– She looked surprised.

To finish off, I heard this singer performing, ‘Changes’ by ‘Black Sabbath’ and was blown away by it. When I was trying to find it (It’s at Villa Park) I found this and had to play it.

And just yesterday I watched another Louis Theroux documentary which was about Yungblud – A very interesting character!!

Hugh

Image: Snooker balls racked and ready from Pixabay.com

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A treat this week. We all enjoyed the story Wolf Normal by Lynne Curry and Lynne has sent us a link to the audio version read by the author herself. Enjoy.