leafless autumn - the chubby cardinal cannot hide
Chubby Cardinal [Haiku]
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DAILY PHOTO: Jekyll Island Club
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BOOK REVIEW: Fine Print, Vol. 1 by Stjepan Šejić
Fine Print, Volume 1 by Stjepan ŠejićMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Out: November 30, 2021
This erotic graphic novel intertwines a “real world” star-crossed love story with a storyline set in a fantastical realm that mixes Greek Mythology, the lore of incubi and succubi, and elements from the author’s imagination. The central premise is a Faustian bargain, but with some twists.
The artwork is beautifully done, colorful, and in some cases quite explicit. Readers who are a bit prudish or who are considering buying this for someone as a gift should beware that there are many graphically explicit scenes of nudity and a wide variety of sex acts.
It’s best read in a single sitting because the non-linear depiction of events combined with the crossing between two different story worlds can result in the read being a bit disjointed / confusing.
I found this story to be engrossing and evocative with likable characters.
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The Keeper’s Conundrum [Common Meter]
Living like a lighthouse keeper - alone beyond nowhere. Out of sight and out of one's mind, beyond the range of prayer. One's loss unnoticed until there's a wreck upon the rocks. Counted on to prevent chaos from out in the boondocks. A world that doesn't want, or know, you begs your best attention, but will forget to give all but its stern reprehension should you fail or should you falter and catastrophe strikes, they will find your long dead body with their pitchforks and their pikes.
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Mountain Mimicry [Haibun]
The cloud mimicked a mountain top, its ridge sun fired to bright white by the rising sun, its shadow side in granite gray, being impenetrable to the sun's rays. Mountains that imposing live a thousand miles away, but that cloud took me there. the morning sun lights up a dense cloud to mimic mountains
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DAILY PHOTO: Botanic Closeups
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Rooted [Tanka]
roots sprawl, sinuously creeping. what's it like to hold so firm and reach so far?
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BOOK REVIEW: The Umbrella Academy, #0 by Gerard Way
The Umbrella Academy #0 by Gerard WayMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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This issue features the dysfunctional family of freakish [non-blood] sibling superheroes taking on a character called the “Murder Magician,” a dapper but demented individual who likes to combine the showmanship of magic with the psychopathy of serial killing. The Murder Magician takes control of a talk show with a live studio audience while he’s being interviewed so that he can have the makings of mass murder readily at hand.
The art is chaotically drawn, but colorful, imparting a level of whimsy in line a villain with an affinity for sleight of hand.
It’s a simple story, as a single-issue comic can only be. I was familiar with the characters from the Netflix series adaptation, and that proved necessary because even though it’s #0, it’s very much a story in medias res.
I stumbled upon this issue as a free promotional gift on Amazon. If you like and are familiar with the comic, it’s worth a look. If not, there might be too many characters and too much oddness to make sense of it.
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Temple of Dawn [Tanka]
Temple of Dawn stands by a river - brown and wide, a river both older and younger than it
