Tag: snapshot stories
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The Lantern (Snapshot Stories 16)
The lantern was made of lightning and sand. When it was lit, it whispered stories of opal stars and endless skies. Backstory: The words were written in 2017 and I created the accompanying image a couple of days ago. The base image was done by my LittleOne. Then I photoshopped it to add a cosmos…
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The Dream Alchemist (Snapshot Stories 15)
After I confess to my best friend, Becs, that I’ve had the same weird dream for three days now, she lifts her goggles up and looks at me unblinkingly. “You know that’s significant, right?” I half-hush and half-hiss at her in a reflexive return to my old childhood habit. Becs rolls her eyes and then…
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The Bee and the Ocean Flower (Snapshot Stories 14)
The bee found an ocean-flower and gathered its pollen everyday. Soon the honey had veins of aqua playfulness, turquoise stillness, storm grey suddenness and dark blue thoughtfulness. If you looked closely, you could also see shining speckled memories of salt. People who tasted the honey cried at its exquisite taste. And it sold in ever…
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The Cherry Blossoms and the Milky-Green Lake (Snapshot Stories 12)
For Bodie xx Olivia stood on the roof of multi-storey building of the university library. It was always freezing up there, especially at night. Her shoulders hunched even more than usual against the blades of ice in the wind. Her eyes and her nose were sore, she thought irrelevantly as she turned her back on…
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The Giant in the Sky (Snapshot Stories 9)
The giant in the sky goes about his task painstakingly and tenderly. He roams the sky, gathering many, many handfuls and armfuls of delicate drops of rain. He pauses sometimes, to admire the way they sit in his hands – drops that are trembling and translucent, that capture echoes of the blue sky. Raindrops that…
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A Cup of Universe Tea (Snapshot Stories 7)
After the ten-day hike, we were ecstatic when we reached the Cafe at the Edge of the Mountains. Following tradition, we ordered cups of Universe Tea. As we waited wordlessly, we stared out to where the mountains murmur to the sky, the moon, the clouds. Where the stars could run along the snow-stormed ridges, and…
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The Photographer, the Fairy and the Frog (Snapshot Stories 6)
The photographer thought he’d captured some unusual shadows in his photo of the glimmering stream water. He didn’t realise was that it was a frog – curled in mid-leap, twisting and turning to hide a fairy from the camera viewfinder. The fairy looked up with a startled gasp as she realised what was happening and…
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The Cat of Moonlight and Shadows (Snapshot Stories 5)
As dusk slipped out of the sky, the cat of moonlight and shadows sat next to some straggly azalea bushes outside a nondescript suburban house, and waited. Within a few minutes, the resident human opened the front door and peered cautiously into the darkening street, as if not quite sure why she’d opened the door…
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