Raymond St. Elmo
I was walking down the sidewalk when the ground shook. The sky went black-purple as though the Heavens had rolled back to reveal a giant ugly bruise.
A choir of angels flew in choreographed swooping above me, shouting 'Yo! Hey! You!'
Eagles flew past shouting 'Tidings! Tidings!' Bells rung across the city, dogs and cats played video games together while the trees of the park PULLED FREE OF THE GROUND and walked towards me on their tippy-roots.
They circled about me singing 'Ray should be a writer, Ray should be a writer, la, la, la.'
The rest, as they say, is history. That is, mostly fictional, mostly dull and mostly unread.
A choir of angels flew in choreographed swooping above me, shouting 'Yo! Hey! You!'
Eagles flew past shouting 'Tidings! Tidings!' Bells rung across the city, dogs and cats played video games together while the trees of the park PULLED FREE OF THE GROUND and walked towards me on their tippy-roots.
They circled about me singing 'Ray should be a writer, Ray should be a writer, la, la, la.'
The rest, as they say, is history. That is, mostly fictional, mostly dull and mostly unread.
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Do you ‘polish’ your drafts much? This curiosity follows from another question about your prose being exceptionally good, so the effort required interests me! Is it mostly there in your first draft, or is there agony getting there? I have no literary talent but when I wrote technical reports at work I could never resist ‘polishing’ though mostly to correct poor grammar rather than add any witty insights about Life.
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