Aurora: Blog

Well the title's a bit of a joke but if your sight is failing it ain't very funny. I just read The Blind Man's blog followed by Fast Turtle's. I've lost the sight of one eye and part of the other, fotunately I can still see quite clearly at normal screen resolution but I do have difficulty finding the mouse pointer (I use trails) and the cursor. So I'm probbly better off than them, but it does worry me when Fast Turtle says he is still driving. I gave up because when your eyesight reaches a certain point you don't know what you can't see. For instance I can look at a sheet of plywood and my brain fills in the whole thing because I know what it looks like. If there is a pencil in the middle of it I probably won't see it until I look very carefully. If I were driving that could be a small child... Think about it.

Reports of my death, if there were any, would have been gross exaggerations - thanks Sam - I just haven't written anything for a couple of years for several reasons that you don't want to know about. Doubtless I shall gets some stick over this one, lack of codes, but I've had that before, but hey, whilst people are having a go at me everyone else gets a rest! I've got several stories in the pipeline, I just thought of another today so I'll find more time to get them written up.

Silly title but there we are. Chap wrote to me and said he stopped reading at a point where he said a rape took place. Bit strong I thought but when I re-read it I had to agree it wasn't very nice - bloody awful in fact. So I re-wrote that bit and tidied up one or two other things.

I'll have a look at the sequel next to tidy that up.

I had some interesting feedback from A New Life so here is another slice. I did have someone tell me there were editing errors in the first story, but I couldn't find them. Odd. Also that I should have said that Ruth and Louise were twins. They aren't. They are a twin, twin is essentially a plural. I do have twin daughters. Not a bit like this pair fortunately, but it is all fiction, the product of a fevered imagination. Will there be more? My imagination needs some rest after this lot so we'll have to see.

Well now, I forgot the pregnancy bit and got told off for missing the code off. Thinking about it it does give away something - sometimes the codes do, and it might have been better if I left that off, but maybe someone would be shocked if they suddenly found out that shagging leads to babies - I know I was!
I enjoyed writing this and some of it is a bit of an experiment, but for those who didn't like it, well, comedian Frank Skinner told a tale of a Roumanian phrase which translates as 'trouble at the gypsy camp'. But what it really means is 'Who gives a damn'.
Curious thing is that the last story I posted, The Farm' got me loads of feedback and yet it was essentially run of the mill, indeed almost Mills and Boone. So I know what SOL readers like but... (sighs and places back of hand on forehead whilst gazing into the distance) an artist has to do what an artist has to do.