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Category Archives: Bland observations
Poor girl in love
Brunette, slim and trim, perky, hopes up but also visibly uncertain. Walks up the stone path to the country house and knocks on the door. We see what’s inside – a man and another woman in embrace. He opens the … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Flash fiction, Fun, Life, Love, Satire, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Writing
Tagged Flash fiction, in love, jilted, Love, scorned, short story, video game
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A burnt-out case
“When you’re in the car with him, he rants incessantly that the roads are populated by morons, brain-amputated assholes, sons of bitches and worse who sit in their tin boxes in a half-dazed state, mainly staring at their goddamn phones … Continue reading
Poem no. 1581
Oh that it had tocome to this! What is this?Be more precise,my dear precisionmaniac! And by the way:today is mybirthday – have youforgotten? And it’s not myfifteen-hundred-eighty-first one –I’ve got a ways to go. Looks like I got lostin the … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Life, memory, Poetry, Time, Writing
Tagged birthday, humor, James Steerforth, memory, poem, tarts
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Behind Conad
It’s yet another dreary rainy day. I’m in Castel di Leva to pick up Sa. Had coffee at the bar, then went to the store to avoid being in the rain. Now I’m in the car, across from a car … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, diary, Flash fiction, Life, Writing
Tagged Castel di Leva, Conad, diary, Italy, James Steerforth, Johannes Beilharz, life, pink high heels, rain, rainy day, supermarket
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Brave New World
What, you don’t believe me? These two are real-life lovers! They met in the waiting room of the cosmetic surgeon who was to blow up their lips, were approached right there by a model scout specializing in surgically enhanced prototypes … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Bland observations, Creative writing, Enigma, Flash fiction, Life, Literature, Nonsense, Photography, Satire, Science fiction, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Writing
Tagged AI, AI photography, Artificial Intelligence, brave new world, cloning, cosmetic surgery, fashion, Flash fiction, lip surgery
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Condition survey
Bad. The Doors roar and jangle in the background. My stomach sours from coffee, caffeine builds up in the back of my head. Suzanne is gone, in the kitchen the dirty dishes in the sink are soaking up water. “Impending … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, diary, Enigma, Flash fiction, Life, Literature, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Writing
Tagged blues, diary, dirty dishes, Flash fiction, good start, off track, sensitivity, status quo
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Short memoir of a minor character
My name is Eino Roskinen. Of course, this is not my real name. I was included under that name as a minor character in the novel Cass Timberlane, now considered a rather minor work of Sinclair Lewis but quite a … Continue reading
A few seconds in the mind of Cinzia
Should definitely get rid of the bird shit on the roof. Black really shows it. Probably some pigeon. But I always park here, and usually there’s no bird shit. It’s under a roof after all. But no time now, have … Continue reading
A Romanian sentence
Electronic dog that barks when someone walks by –in a white Sprinter van with Bucureşti license platesparked along the shore of Lago Maggiore. – James Steerforth (© 2021) Based on true events. Has the form of an American sentence but … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Enigma, Life, Poetry, Writing
Tagged American sentence, Bucharest, Bucureşti, electronic dog, poem, Poetry, prose poem, Romania
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The unknown engineer
On the imaginary tracks of his life And no – this working life is not enough. Sets out to the factory in the morning. Work. Not very exciting. But one does what one must do. Wednesday lunch at a restaurant … Continue reading
A nice ending for a novel
And so they stood there hand in hand watching the waters of the river flow by until they got bored and left. – James Steerforth Author’s note Novelists usually attempt to wrap up the novel with an ending that packs … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Creative writing, Flash fiction, Fun, Life, Literature, Nonsense, Novel, Novel endings, Novelists, Writing
Tagged fiction, Flash fiction, humor, Novel, novel ending
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Why the Catholic church?
“Why on earth did you drop off a dried-up Christmas tree with some ornaments still in place on the front steps of a Catholic church in April of 1978?” “Well, in an odd way we thought they’d be blessed.” “Blessed?” … Continue reading
You can be damn sure
it’s going to be a slow movie if the hero takes about ten minutes to enter the place, drag his feet across the floor turtle-like and sit down on the sofa sloth-like, eventually putting his mustachioed head in his hands. … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Cinema, Creative writing, Enigma, Film, Flash fiction, Literature, Sweet dreams and nightmares, Writing
Tagged art movie, crime, fiction, Film, Flash fiction, hero, microfiction, movies, murder, mystery, sloth, slow, turtle, villain
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Daisy said
Where would I find glass slippers nowadays? – I’d make such a wonderful cinderella! – James Steerforth (© 2018)
Posted in Bland observations, Flash fiction, Fun, Life, Nonsense
Tagged Brothers Grimm, cinderella, fairytale, glass slippers, humor
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Oh memory
Trieste, somewhere near Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia, a youngish woman exiting a gelateria with a cone stacked high. Made me think of a sack due to the shapeless brown dress, which seemed to cover a heavy structure. And immediately I thought … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Cinema, Creative writing, Enigma, Flash fiction, Life, Nonsense, Writing
Tagged clothing, dress, Flash fiction, memory, sack, sack-like, shapeless, short story, Trieste, ultrashort story
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The WTF poem
“WTF – I wonder how that is pronounced…” “Not that easy to say, it being Proto-Srpko-Pannonian. Not at all what you would guess from the spelling. Probably sounded like hwiss, the final f generally being mute for all we know.” … Continue reading
Posted in Bland observations, Fun, Nonsense, Poetry, Writing
Tagged extinct languages, humor, linguistics, old languages, Poetry, WTF
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Happy ending
That’s what YOU call a happy ending: you plundered our joint bank account, maxed out our credit cards and ran off with the Austrian masseur who looks like Arnold reborn and is twenty-eight years younger than you. While I’m home … Continue reading
A confession. Sort of.
I know it’s not really an excuse, as if I gave a damn anyhow, but one night when my dad had grounded me and both my parents the jerks were out I got fucking drunk while listening to music and … Continue reading
Steer Forth! 