• natty commented on the post, tales 2 months, 1 week ago

    It cracked – the fire did.
    Noticed by none, it continued, in no demure.
    An old man continued too.
    As all heard his pauses, and rises, and falls.
    The fire – it cracked.

  • natty commented on the post, detention 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    There are 246 tiles on the floor. 246. And the room is a rectangle. I know because the tiles aren’t the same amount on the length and width. It’s terribly sad everyone one who sits at this desk is going to have to […]

  • natty posted an update in the group Group logoFavorite Words 10 months, 3 weeks ago

    Afflatus

  • natty posted an update in the group Group logoFavorite Words 10 months, 3 weeks ago

    Surfeit

  • natty posted an update in the group Group logoFavorite Words 10 months, 4 weeks ago

    pedantry

  • natty commented on the post, persons 11 months ago

    “How many?”

    Five. I wanted to say five. It was always five. When had it not been? I couldn’t remember a time. Say anything different was insolence, I knew that. Why do they have to ask, must I be reminded […]

  • natty posted an update in the group Group logoFavorite Words 11 months ago

    inveterate
    obtrude
    demur
    anodynes

  • natty commented on the post, pour 11 months ago

    I was glad of it. I could see the hills rolling around us, and the other mud huts dotting them. I could see we were surrounded. And I was glad of it. Glad to have the tears of the heavens angrily diving into the […]

  • natty posted an update in the group Group logoFavorite Words 11 months ago

    Sonorous

  • natty commented on the post, mayor 11 months ago

    A large, round, brusque man walked to the microphone. He seemed to gather up his words before he spoke, they were buried deep within his large frame. As a man who’d done his job well, but maybe a bit too long for […]

  • natty commented on the post, cathedral 11 months, 1 week ago

    Full of awe, cold stones, cold hearts, and irony, they stand as a testimony of too many things:

    Of man’s ability to build upward, but not inward.

  • natty commented on the post, straw 11 months, 1 week ago

    There wasn’t anything like coming home, home way out here and across the ocean, after that. After all that. Home was like a dream and war was your life. You wouldn’t believe it ended, it was too big for that. […]

  • natty commented on the post, brief 11 months, 1 week ago

    There has to be the knowledge of a thing, in order for your understanding of it to shine through. The goal is: concise, succinct, clear. In short, if it is short because it’s made up and not true, it will show; if […]

  • natty commented on the post, racket 11 months, 1 week ago

    As she sat I could see it building within her. She was trying to ignore hearing, which caused the feeling she had. But when your work is that important and all of you shows up to write, the smallest hard noises […]

  • natty posted an update in the group Group logoFavorite Words 11 months, 1 week ago

    Solicitude

  • natty commented on the post, nest 11 months, 1 week ago

    It occurred to him as he sat and tugged methodically at his pipe, the vast and peculiar way in which Nature mirrors our own natural state. He had traveled and seen, and conversed, and inspired and been inspired, […]

  • natty commented on the post, treaty 11 months, 2 weeks ago

    He poised his body and focused all he had on appearing calm. Meanwhile his mind was whirring past him. He kept his pen steady; Be Natural. Easy. Even Cheerful. He laughed internally.

    Much was riding on this […]

  • natty posted an update in the group Group logoFavorite Words 11 months, 2 weeks ago

    Habiliments.

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