The Contents Page
What's in the library
Inspired by those who have gone before me (and helped a little, on the technical front!), I have created a contents page for my work on vocal, thus enabling the thousands who flock to my profile daily (or you six or seven, thank you so much for keeping my chin up!) to gain easy access to both the gems and the wormy potatoes. Some of these pieces look like somewhat peculiar choices without the context of the challenge they were written for (why the fuck has a box shown up on the doorstep? What's with the random chapter that goes nowhere? And where do these ideas for Haiku come from?) I have learnt a lesson there and more recently started using subtitles to remind me if I was writing the piece to a particular challenge.
I contemplated placing a little marker next to the pieces I felt good about, usually because I enjoyed writing them, and an alternative marker for the duds - avoid these, not good. But where's the threshold (about 16 minutes, much of the time)? So I left that be. Instead I have gone from chronological order, newest first, within each category. I also haven't put stories which placed in a community challenge under achievements, because I cant remember which ones did and which ones didn't! I may move them in time, if I can figure it out.
Top Stories and Achievements
I Try to Sink - poetry - Second Place in the Short and Sweet Challenge
Her Name is Star - Runner up in the Dragon Beside Me Challenge, Top Story
The Price of Everything and the Value of All - Runner up in the Love Unravelled Challenge
Why, Why, Why Runner up in the Snow Micro Challenge
Synergy - Runner up in the Misplaced Challenge and Top Story
Broken - Runner-Up in the Villanelle Challenge
Gastrolith - Runner- Up in the Smooth Challenge
The Witches of Little Writtham - Runner-Up in the Under a Spell Challenge
Making Time - Poetry - Top Story
Invitation to Renga with Me - Top Story
My Cat Died on Friday - none fiction - Top Story
The Keep - Fiction - winner in Randy Baker's March Challenge
Among those Dark Satanic Mills - Poetry - Winner of Sleepy Drafts' Eavesdropping Sleepy Mission
Ascending - fiction, Top Story, joint winner in Mackenzie Davies' Ekphrasitc Challenge
Questions with Rick Henry Christopher - Top Story
In the Bleak Mid-Winter - non fiction, Top Story
The Sum of My Parts - non fiction, Top Story
The course of true love - Poetry, Top Story
Purgatory - Fiction, Top Story
Forgotten: The Story of a Story - Fiction, Top Story
Vicissitudes - Poetry, Short list in Mackenzie Davis' "Grocery List" challenge
Little Witch - fiction? Non fiction? - Top Story
Roulette - horror fiction - Tops Story and winner of Paul Stewart's "Unnerve, Unsettle, and Scare Me" Challenge
A Letter To Heather - letter - Top Story and honorable mention in Heather Hubler's 'Write me a letter' Challenge
Autumn Days - fiction (sad) - Top Story
Dead Leaves - non-fiction - Top Story
Ripples - First place in Jazzy's Filthy Haiky Challenge
Eating with my Fingers - Third Place in Vocal Social Society's Haiku Honey Challenge
Turn away please, while I get naked - non-fiction - Top Story
The Writing Circle - non-fiction- Top Story
Help a book lover out - non-fiction - Top Story
Cabin Pressure - fiction - Top Story
Non-Fiction
I have of late lost all my mirth
And Now, for my One Hundered and Fifty First Story...
Love Unravelled? Love's Unravelling me!
Why I would like to do a murder and other stories
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
He's (probably) not the Messiah
Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things
Fiction
The Paradox of the Unicorn and the Rainbow
"You must let what happens happen"
The Dance of the Queens of Heaven
Micro Fiction
Hansel and Gretel Find a Snack
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
General Poetry
Battenberg, and other sugary joys.
Smile and the world smiles with you. Cry and you cry alone.
Meeting full face on dark mornings
Scream if you want to go faster!
The First Wonder of this World
The Name of the Devil is Greed
A (delayed) Visit from St Nicholas
Limericks
Insert relevant proper noun here
Haiku/Senryu
From a single flame, a conflagration grows
The isolation of the grieving soul
And if anyone is still with me here, you will see that I needed thirty more words to meet the minimum word count at the time of publication. Et Voila.
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