DYSFUNCTIONAL
5 de Julho de 2017, 5:12Max stared at the wall. He threw the chewed paperclip into the plastic cup and picked up a fresh one.
‘How many is that?’ Darcy asked from across the cubicle divide.
‘Ten.’ Max answered, putting the new paperclip between his teeth.
‘You’re not functioning well today.’
‘A-ha!’ Max shouted and spat out the paperclip. Leaning forward he wrote on the crossword. ‘D-y-s-f-u-n-c-t-i-o-n-a-l. ‘An inability to work with hollowed-out dry and stiff ointment.”
He threw the newspaper down in triumph.
Darcy looked over at him. ‘Can we get on with actual work now?’
‘I’m all yours. Remind me to order more paperclips later.’
Copyright Claire Sheldon
Written as part of the Friday Fictioneers challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields (more details HERE). The idea is to write a short story of 100 words based on the photo prompt (above).
To read stories of 100 words based on this week’s prompt, visit HERE.
007 perguntas para Roger Moore: uma entrevista marcada para depois da morte
5 de Julho de 2017, 5:10Roger Moore não atuou no filme 007 Marcado para a Morte. Lançado em 1987, este filme lançou Timothy Dalton no papel do agente secreto mais famoso do mundo, logo após a aposentadoria de Moore, que atuou pela última vez como o espião do escritor Ian Fleming na película 007 Na Mira dos Assassinos (1985).
Apesar disso, o terceiro ator a interpretar o personagem James Bond marcou a minha mente como nenhum outro. E como todos nós vivos estamos na mira da morte, com Roger não seria diferente: ele faleceu deixando sua estrela impressa na calçada das memórias como aquele que transformou o substantivo elegância em sinônimo de cinema.
Partindo deste mundo para outro, Moore viveu e deixou morrer serenamente em 23 de maio de 2017, quase aos 90 anos de idade. Sua vida foi além da imaginação quando, após ser reprovado nas aulas de desenho e animação, acabou conhecendo…
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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
5 de Julho de 2017, 5:08Notes:
- Photograph/Art: Sergii Vidov (Donetsk, Ukraine) with “Caravan” (via Elinka, the unsuccessful housewife)
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Thor’s Cave…
5 de Julho de 2017, 5:08Had there been any doubt about where we were going next…
Which there wasn’t.
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For once, our destination proved quite easy to get to.
A car park was suggested by the guidebook and in the car park were easy to follow directions.
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Not too far away to be too uncomfortable.
But just far enough away to deter commercialisation.
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These are all metaphors.
And the metaphors continued at the mouth of the cave.
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Whose approach to the interior provided an effective deterrent against the casual tourist.
But not to us because we are not.
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The thing about caves…
You never want them to end…
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But they always do.
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Which is why we deal in metaphysics.
The way beyond the end of the earth is Geometry.
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Which does not so much measure the earth.
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Britain’s Futile Attempt to Keep American Colonists From Taking Tribal Land – Atlas Obscura
5 de Julho de 2017, 5:07Picture this: In the 1760s, a team of colonial surveyors meets a group of leaders representing major Native American tribes in what will one day become the southeastern region of the United States of America. Together, they head out into the woods. Their task is to mark a negotiated border, by…
Source: Britain’s Futile Attempt to Keep American Colonists From Taking Tribal Land – Atlas Obscura