tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086 the last words the last words 2026-04-21T15:21:30Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:248244 Humph 2026-04-21T15:21:30Z 2026-04-21T15:21:30Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />It was a face that spoke of long-continued and hardened vice—it was one in which the Past had written indelible characters. The brand of the hangman could not have stamped it more plainly, nor have more unequivocally warned the suspicion of honest or timid men.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=248244" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:247876 Humph 2026-04-12T11:19:40Z 2026-04-12T11:19:40Z public 2 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />The sense of time having stopped thirty or so years ago is especially evident in the extraordinary 'House of Wax' which occupies the old Anglican church of St Luke built in 1877 for the large number of English visitors and still with memorials on the wall to those who perished while taking the waters.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=247876" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:247803 Humph 2026-04-04T12:26:07Z 2026-04-04T12:26:07Z public 5 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />Asked about his sloppy appearance, Pollard responded simply that he had become engrossed in a 'gorgeous edition of the Arabian Nights' and 'just couldn't find time to undress and go to sleep'.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=247803" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:247448 Humph 2026-03-29T16:10:12Z 2026-03-29T16:10:12Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />In the lives of the good, bad people are the deciding factor. That's just how it goes. In the lives of the bad, the good ones disappear. They don't even notice them.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=247448" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:247065 Humph 2026-03-23T14:01:24Z 2026-03-23T14:01:24Z public 3 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />Using this process, called photosynthesis, plants store the energy from sunlight in the form of sugar (high in calories, as you know), and they can then use this sugar energy to make everything else they need: like protein, and fibre, and flowers, and corn on the cob, and bark, and leaves, and amazing traps that eat flies, and cures for cancer, and tomatoes, and wispy dandelions, and conkers, and chillies, and all the other amazing things that the plant world has going on.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=247065" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:246910 spiralicious 2026-03-17T22:07:55Z 2026-03-17T22:07:55Z public 1 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralicious' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralicious.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralicious.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralicious</b></a></span><br /><br />Time lingers for no kid, but memories of his misbehaviors would remain for all time.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=246910" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:246726 Humph 2026-02-14T12:40:24Z 2026-02-14T12:40:24Z public 2 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />I know that these tiny, almost invisible, hair-thin worms - 'the most numerous animals on earth' - are everywhere, hundreds in every handful of leaf mould, billions beneath the soil, recycling debris, remaking the world.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=246726" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:246323 Humph 2026-02-10T14:24:39Z 2026-02-14T12:40:47Z public 2 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />And then, as suddenly as he'd appeared, the masked botanist was gone, leaving the townspeople with only an enriched knowledge of local flora and fungi to remember him by.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=246323" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:246146 imhilien 2026-02-08T01:28:12Z 2026-02-08T01:28:12Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='imhilien' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://imhilien.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://imhilien.dreamwidth.org/'><b>imhilien</b></a></span><br /><br />Maybe whoever returned the hope chest had left us a note after all.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=246146" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:245917 stonepicnicking_okapi 2026-02-07T16:54:49Z 2026-02-07T16:54:49Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='stonepicnicking_okapi' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/'><b>stonepicnicking_okapi</b></a></span><br /><br />The house sitter had been one of Peter Diamond’s better suggestions.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=245917" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:245743 tally 2026-01-31T03:31:01Z 2026-01-31T03:31:01Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='tally' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://tally.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://tally.dreamwidth.org/'><b>tally</b></a></span><br /><br />You'll just have to imagine you're Siri Keeton.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=245743" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:245270 Humph 2026-01-24T17:46:27Z 2026-01-24T17:47:09Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />this is what will be left behind: a forgotten light bulb burning itself out in the cupboard under the stairs; the odd coin or hairgrip wedged between floorboards; and sand.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=245270" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:245196 Humph 2026-01-19T14:43:50Z 2026-01-19T14:43:50Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />Mummy was extremely house-proud, and she did all the housework in the nude. It was a tad disconcerting for our maids and au pair girls, but she liked to get it done, then have a bath.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=245196" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:244772 Tucker McKinnon 2026-01-17T17:12:45Z 2026-01-17T17:12:45Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='jazzfish' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://jazzfish.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://jazzfish.dreamwidth.org/'><b>jazzfish</b></a></span><br /><br />... they dwell now beyond the circles of the world, and do not return.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=244772" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:244626 the thirteenth expedition 2026-01-09T11:16:45Z 2026-01-09T11:16:45Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='northlands' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://northlands.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://northlands.dreamwidth.org/'><b>northlands</b></a></span><br /><br />She looked for her cigarettes and went about observing, in ecstasy, the infinite, many-colored crystals accumulating in the air.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=244626" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:244340 Humph 2025-12-29T16:54:08Z 2025-12-29T16:54:08Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />Every institution we have explored, from a cathedral to a brewery, symbolises mankind's aspirations and strivings for a better and fuller life.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=244340" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:244157 Tucker McKinnon 2025-12-27T16:43:36Z 2025-12-27T16:43:36Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='jazzfish' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://jazzfish.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://jazzfish.dreamwidth.org/'><b>jazzfish</b></a></span><br /><br />"Dick Laurant is dead."<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=244157" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:243867 stonepicnicking_okapi 2025-12-20T00:31:13Z 2025-12-20T00:31:13Z public 4 Posted by: <span lj:user='stonepicnicking_okapi' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/'><b>stonepicnicking_okapi</b></a></span><br /><br />They heard one of the party carelessly singing a Christmas carol for glory and joy, and the laughter of the children coming home.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=243867" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:243474 Humph 2025-12-09T15:55:46Z 2025-12-09T15:55:46Z public 4 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />If Wendell's stepmother has us slain before I have a chance to contribute to the scholarly debate, I will be very disappointed.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=243474" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:243218 stonepicnicking_okapi 2025-12-08T21:15:14Z 2025-12-08T21:15:14Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='stonepicnicking_okapi' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/'><b>stonepicnicking_okapi</b></a></span><br /><br />He was hanged in May.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=243218" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:243188 spiralicious 2025-12-08T19:33:09Z 2025-12-08T19:33:09Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralicious' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralicious.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralicious.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralicious</b></a></span><br /><br />No. Orlov made toys.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=243188" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:242786 Humph 2025-12-08T10:15:24Z 2025-12-08T10:15:24Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />Time passes. It passes.<br />It passes. It scores.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=242786" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:242656 Humph 2025-12-06T22:05:06Z 2025-12-06T22:05:06Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />"Shit," he said.<br />The city they were in had just shown up on CNN.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=242656" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:242267 Humph 2025-12-04T00:24:53Z 2025-12-04T00:24:53Z public 4 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />The words were surfacing, crackling, like a person drowning in the waves. "Must be a no-signal area," he said... eep appearing and disapp...<br />He glanced at the phone. The only remaining signal bar blinked, then vanished.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=242267" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-03-22:5086:242160 Humph 2025-11-24T18:57:06Z 2025-11-24T18:57:06Z public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='spiralsheep' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/'><b>spiralsheep</b></a></span><br /><br />There's nothing to be done. You've acquired what we in the business call a destiny.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=endings&ditemid=242160" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments