By Tanya Vessey Blog Writing chapter six first draft feels like baby steps as I inch through the storyline toward the chapter completion. Each baby step is monumental though, each step is a new action, another happening, a story point that pushes the action forward. I have written parts for this chapter in the past,… Leer más Herding cats
By Matthew Robins She told Gracie she wanted her eyebrows threaded. She said there was a place in the strip mall, around the corner from the liquor store, that did it. Gracie told her mother the truth – that her eyebrows looked fine. Her mother said eyebrow threading looked neat. She said she wanted to… Leer más #Flash Fiction story: Eyebrow Threading
by Seden B. Watabe Some days I feel all peppy & alive, much like a fresh daisy, smiling under the bright spring sunlight. Other days, I feel a bit heavy and sombre, Almost as if I am a subdued grey cloud,on a cold winter sky. Yet, despite such fickle moments, there are certain things in… Leer más The seeds of growth will one day sprout…
By Robin Saikia In this Zompini engraving, a young woman has just filled two large buckets of water from a nearby well and will set off around the city selling drinks for a bezzo (a “groat” might be a good English translation). Watercarriers were known as bigolanti on account of the distinctive curved pole (bigol… Leer más 18th Century Venice: the Water Lady
By Olga Nuñez Hi all: I bring you a book that will be published in a couple of days by a writer whose previous book I enjoyed. Recommended to readers of historical fiction who love a touch of the Gothic/horror. Hyde: A thrilling Gothic masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author by Craig Russell When it comes… Leer más Reviews: Craig Russell, Scottish Historical Gothic mystery, and a twist on Stevenson’s Hyde (without Jekyll)
by Mathew Robinson link blog I work nights. So when the doorbell rang around noon, I was still on the couch in my underwear having my morning coffee. Thankfully, I don’t get many visitors, especially unannounced visitors. So I went to the window to look outside to see what was up. All I could see… Leer más Pest Control
By Mattew Robinson blog The owner of the neighborhood bar where I hang out is 56-years-old, so he’s no spring chicken. There’s been a story floating around how he recently got so drunk somebody had to tow him home in a kiddie wagon behind a bicycle. The people I heard the story from told it… Leer más The Wagon Ride
Gobblers & Masticadores They incorporate the visit of this excellent colleague every 15 days. We invite you to follow him on his blog / Lluis observa, visiona y comunica el alma de nuestras vidas. j re crivello (Editor) Definition of entropy: A) Thermodynamics: a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that… Leer más The Monochrome Experience: Entropy by Lluís Bussé
by Robin Saikia blog This plate is from an important and entertaining book published in Venice in the mid-eigthteenth century, Tratto da Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia (Venetian Street Traders would be a suitable short title), with engravings by Gaetano Gherardo Zompini. It shows an itinerant tinker who would sell… Leer más 18th Century Venetian Street Trades: The Cat Gelder
By Robin Saikia link blog Following on from my previous post about Zompini’s Venetian engravings, here from the same series is an unusual and seasonal trader, the Marmot Man, who comes for Carnival. In the accompanying rhyme he explains that at Carnival he quits the snows of Piedmont for the squares of Venice, bringing his… Leer más 18th Century Venetian Street Trades: the Marmot Guy
Blog Stilettos You’re oh so enticing lined in a row. A multitude of styles, patterns, shapes, and colors. Where you’ll take me, my mind explores – to the boardroom to the dance floor to a night of amour Wanting so much to scoop you up, slip you on and slip away – to another location… Leer más Opposing Shoepoints or Two Points of Shoe (you choose) by Michele Lee Sefton
By SedenB Watanabe Over again, I find myself caught in the rat race. Every so often, all weary and exhausted, and at times, a little off track, hobbling around trying to pull myself back up and get moving. Whilst, I am a kind of person who loves living a slow paced life, there are times… Leer más Tea please!
by Sun Jesper Jansen link blog Reading about geology and deep timeand Norse mythology before bedapparently means that I wake upwith a line like this in mind: There were tardigradesin the Ginnungagap. I blink into the before-alarm dawn,pondering insanity, and the visionof the great Primeval Cow lickinga little water bear into being. I hope everyone’s… Leer más Considering the Void, 5 am
Writing is a complex process and you need a check list. Tania talks to us about this topic today… j re crivello -Editor by Tanya Vessey A checklist has helped me to keep on track so far and I’ve written another 500 words for chapter four. When I got going it flowed but the going’s… Leer más The big to-do
Link Blog Anita ” How did you get so good at carving pumpkins? ” Aubrey asked her Grandmother on that last autumn evening in their golden sweet smelling and warm kitchen. ” Practice.” Enid told her Granddaughter as she delicately put the tip of her butcher’s knife against the side pumpkin’s blank face. ” Lots and… Leer más The Carver by A. M. Moscoso
By Tamara Yancosky Link Blog And there they were; the two sisters; Evil and Innocence. One sister sported black, from top to bottom, and like a stray cat, preferred the closeness of the ground, which is why she crawled, crouching about. Her black hair hung around her neck in hideous knots. Her raspy voice mumbled under her musty… Leer más Sisters
Introducing a new Gobblers contributor: Robin Saikia, who invites us to visit the Venice of the century. Welcome to Gobblers Robin! Link blog -j re crivello Editor This collection of offbeat articles is inspired by the engravings of Gaetano Gherardo Zompini (1700-1778). an Italian printmaker and engraver. The engravings are taken from his best known… Leer más 18th Century Venice by Robin Saikia
Link to Sun’s blog When did this become your calling card?Your beacon, your in-joke, your perfumewhose notes of decay were so much strongerwhen we were seventeen, or younger,so young to be so willing, sugar in our handsfor the horses of the Underworld. When did you become this other fruit?Red and ripe amidst the leaves still falling,against the soft grass still… Leer más Autumn Raspberries by Sun Hesper Jansen
Writing is interesting, but writing with even better quality. For this reason we present our new collaborator who will push us in that direction. Welcome Tanya Vessey! j re crivello -Editor Blog Tanya Link For the past 10 years I’ve been writing a novel off and on, and now is the time to get it… Leer más Paving the road by Tanya Vessey
Manuela Timofte & J re crivello tenemos el placer de presentar a 8 Nuevos escritores & colaboradores que se incorporan a Gobblers, nuestro Masticadores en inglés. ¡Les damos la bienvenida! Masticadores es una ciudad cambiante y variada, en la cual los individuos intercambiamos poemas, narraciones, textos cortos, imágenes o reflexiones. –j re crivello Manuela Timofte… Leer más 8 new writers in Gobblers!
