Cita's Blog – May 2010 Archive (3)

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The Black Motley-Faced Cow

She just didn't get it.

Here she had been at headquarters all spring long, gathered from the wrong pasture because of all the water gaps being down or maybe it was that oak tree that fell on the fence, but here she had been at headquaters all spring long and now they wanted her to move.

She didn't go off to the Basin with the first group of cows because when they branded her baby, the moon was in the wrong phase and instead of clotting, he just laid down and…

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Added by Cita on May 30, 2010 at 10:37pm — 5 Comments

Velvet Rocks and Contrast

Only the drinks were the same, glasses of Black Velvet on ice, or "velvet rocks" if you've ever tended bar or you want to sound sophisticated, though no one ever saw it as a sophisticated drink, just the whiskey lovers drink, and that qualifies me.

Otherwise, I walked from one world into an entirely other world last night and the contrast was so strong as to make me laugh out loud about the time the art show auctioneer began to whistle and rattle through the paintings and…

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Added by Cita on May 30, 2010 at 10:04pm — 9 Comments

Writers as Thieves

Its just what we do, you know, because we can't live it all, think it all, express it all and our imaginations and memory banks get so full that we have to put it down on paper, all the things we've stolen as we watched and listened.

 

My boyfriend/partner/lover just finished reading the ?th draft of the novel I wrote (its only his second time to read it but I can quote parts of it verbatim and I get a stomach ache when I think about reading it again), and when he got to the…

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Added by Cita on May 30, 2010 at 12:30pm — 7 Comments

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