Hi gary,
Christina was right. The setting (as I've imagined it) was a backyard
barbecue type arrangement - given the time of season that is often enough
the case with Christmas and new year gatherings here. Crude custom has it
that after a period of time, given a reasonable number of people and a
certain quantity of booze, the back fence often becomes the substitute for
indoor facilities.
I've started to develop a bit of a biography for this fellow, so I can keep
track of his background and circumstances, so as to, hopefully, not
criss-cross and confuse why he says or does things - working on the
assumption that there will be more of him emerging over time and that he and
I will get to know each other a little better.
I might finish this particular story at some point - need to decide what he
is likely to have done - but I haven't resolved how to finally shape this
one yet, or even if I'm capable of doing such a thing. We'll see.
A friend has suggested that when suficient of these tales have been written
and assembled there might be a case for combining them with perhaps some
inter-linking narrative to make a coherent (if somewhat idiosyncratically
opinionated) whole. That may also open up the possibility of literary grant
funds and subsequent publication. Seems a long way off, but you never know.
cheers,
Frank
The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm
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>Frank, you have to finish this story. But what is the dark place on fence?
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>To me, the odd words are so odd that no italics works.
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>Thanks.
>
>Gary
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>
>Dec Byron Sacre at: http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html... Writer's
>Hood at http://www.writershood.com/... Poets for Peace.... ˇPoemas sí,
>balas
>no!
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