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Quote of the Day :
L’humanité qui devrait avoir 6000 ans d’expérience, retombe en enfance à chaque génération. Tristan Bernard (French playwright and novelist, 1866-1947)
Man who should have accumulated 6000 years of experience, falls back into childhood at every new generation.
It’s time for another Write Edit Publish Challenge of 2020, writing on a word and picture prompt with the Insecure Writers’ Support Group.
If you’d like to know more about WEP and IWSG, or join the Challenge go here and here
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The WEP site
The joint WEP-IWSG Challenge 2020
This Month
LONG SHADOW
The Banker
His long coat swishes across the macadam.
The gaslit streetlights throw the shadow
of a Stetson onto the lovers’ bench.
They gaze up and see the deep scar;
it forms a curve, a coma, like a tear
frozen at the corner of his eye.
His iris is contracted as if from an intense
glare. She gasps in surprise.
They scuttle off towards the cover of the trees;
he swooshes on his way, disappears
round a brick corner. A cat shrieks
from a trash can in a dead end.
whore whistles a walk down the alley
and smiles absently at the tall, bizarre hat
and cloaked passerby. She recoils
on glimpsing his face.
The man approaches the unlit bank;
he leans against the stone wall
and lights a cigar, pulling
his watch from his pocket. He waits.
When Mr Hacklebaum locks the side-door,
the mysterious stranger steps closer.
As they brush shoulders, the man
swipes a blade across the banker’s throat.
The moon grins at the scene,
casts long shadows over the pavement,
the bench, the wood. The murderer
slinks into the night, coat flapping.
©susanbauryrouchard
FCA 185 words.
The Third Man, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, by Carol Reed 1949 , watch here
Counterpart, TV series, 2017-19, watch here
Bole 2 Harlem, 2007 listen here
Elementary, TV series. Season 7, Episode 13, 2019, watch here
My travels this Summer
Dordogne , sunset on the meadow.
Basque Country, Hendaye. Sunrise on the Twin Rocks and the ocean
Sunrise over Leiketio, Biskaïa
Sunset over Leiketio
Sunrise over the Pyrenees, St Etienne de Baïgorry
Sunset over Les Aldudes, Pyrenees
Sunrise over the Cirque de Gavarnie, Pyrenees
Sunrise over village of Viscos, Grave de Gavarnie valley
Thats all folks. Heat wave again in Toulouse, France.
String of Pearls by Soul Asylum – That song played in my head as I read this. Considering I love that song, big compliment.
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Thanks Jamie, what praise. Happy autumn writing.
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