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The Reckoning: Short Story
As the wind sighed and murmured through the old trees outside her bedroom window, Gina woke with a start. The cottage bedroom was in explicably colder. She saw her breaths coming out in plumes of steam. Not again she thought. How had the duvet worked itself free again, pooling at the bottom of the lumpy four-poster bed? And why was it always exactly 1:35 a.m. when her bladder, without fail, announced its demands? Groping in the dim light, she pulled the duvet back to her chin and stared at the frost spreading across the small windowpanes. Thin white lines like spider silk, stretching left to right in uneven patterns—suggestive…
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Movie Review of the Year!!
Christmas Crackers to catch up on and 3 Turkeys to avoid, Part 1 So, Christmas is over – a big Woo Hoo (!) or “Oh no!”, which largely depends on whether you are over 13 or not. Xmas, at least in our Western European culture, is a great leveller in that we all feel the same emotions and go through universal experiences – feelings stuffed with turkey and still hoovering / cleaning up mysterious stuff from the carpet. All of us running on the remnants of Baileys and Christmas pudding. Let us keep up / resuscitate the jolly holiday feeling with the 1st wordsbywright.com Movie Review of the Year!! Hooray!!…
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Movie Review: Bugonia (2025)
“ The workers gather pollen for the Queen…but the bees, they’re dying…and that’s the way they planned it…to make us the same as the bees” Bugonia (2025) DIRECTOR: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster (2015), Poor Things (2023), Kinds of Kindness (2024) WRITER: Will Tracy MAIN CAST (CHARACTERS): Emma Stone (Michelle Fuller), Jesse Plemons (Teddy Gatz), Aidan Delbis (Don), Stavros Halkias (Casey), Alicia Silverstone (Sandy) Weirdness and Eccentricity in Modern Hollywood Weirdness and eccentricity seem to be the “new normal” now in Hollywood, and HEY, let’s suck it up! Horror fans, we are already living in a golden age – let’s look at the evidence and consider the downright spooky Weapons (unsettlingly…
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Real Gone – a Halloween song
What was it you said, that day at the lake?Before he pushed you in.What was it you felt , that day at the party?As she sharpened the knife.What was it you saw, that you shouldn’t have?As they whispered and plotted in that little,dark alley.Who was you touched as you smiled, self-content?As I left my seat, club in hand.What was it you wore , on that wintry, icy day?As he followed , black hearted, behind.And what is it like , on the other side of now?Gone.
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Movie Review no 1 Weapons (2025)
Weapons is set in the small town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania, where 17 elementary school children mysteriously vanish on the same night at 2:17 a.m., leaving only one child, Alex. The film is structured in character-specific chapters, each offering a different perspective
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Tv Review 1 -Alien Earth (2025)
No one can hear you scream – even in your own living room. Only two episodes in and it looks like Disney+ has a bona fide hit on its hands.
