Tag: character

• The Insect

  

  The Insect Sometimes the span of a lifetime is needed to make an assessment of people. Provincial – that defined Tark’s self-image in the early nineteen-sixties.  An insurance clerk with artistic pretensions and a deeply dissatisfied perspective upon his small-town existence, he had convinced himself of one thing; his destiny was to devote his life…

  frederick anderson

  June 3, 2021

  Short Stories

  adequacy, art, character, determination, expression, fiction, Friendship, inferiority, perseverance, personality, talent, youth

• Nostalgic? No!…I used to be…

  All nations have them: a location in their climatology where the air is at its balmiest, the sunshine hours at their longest, The winter is forbidden ‘til December and exits March the second on the dot.  By order, summer lingers through September… No, not Camelot – or anything like the magical castle of Arthurian legend,…

  frederick anderson

  February 13, 2020

  Social Comment

  Channel Coast, character, Entertainment, food, loneliness, Old age, Sunshine, wealth, Weather

• Eyes half-closed

  When Claude Monet completed his work ‘The Japanese Bridge at Giverny’ he was almost blind. Edgar Degas suffered from an eye disease which warped his vision. When Ridley Scott brought ‘Alien’ to the screen the suffuse light he employed turned H.R. Geiger’s design for a rapacious predator from a man in a rubber suit with…

  frederick anderson

  March 24, 2014

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  Alien, character, Degas, descriptive writing, imagination, impressionist, light, models, Monet