{"id":880,"date":"2023-09-10T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=880"},"modified":"2023-09-10T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:07:54","slug":"short-stories-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/short-stories-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories #6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Working on down the contents page of my collection, When I Am Not Writing Poetry<\/em>, we come to the sixth story in the collection, a collection of images or anecdotes, \u00a0‘Totality’. This is a necessarily short introduction to a short exercise in writing. There are still 24 more stories to introduce, but we are moving along quite nicely in this month of short stories!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw this little collection within a collection as a series of ‘postcards’ – brief, almost pictorial, images of everyday happening. Not very exciting; not alarming; not perhaps even very interesting, but snapshots of life. Here is the first!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One day when I was young I was walking with my grandfather along a wide pavement on the hill leading to his house. We passed a young man who happened to have a blond beard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you ever grow one of those, I’ll disinherit you, my grandfather said to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t pay much attention at the time\u2014for several reasons, mostly to do with age, it didn’t seem very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty years later I had a beard. Ten years after that my grandfather died. And I remembered his words.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

‘Totality’ can be found in When I Am Not Writing Poetry<\/em> – available here<\/a> or on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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