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Cinema Death

March 7, 2019 LittleFears35 Comments

Brass Ep. 43

‘HELP’ was spelt out across the floor in giant letters pulled off a cinemas signage. “I thought if anyone flew overhead…” sighed Copper.

Iron cleaned the dust off the letters. Copper gave her a thankful nod.

Above the entrance was a list of films and times. At the bottom of the sign was a sombre message. ‘The owner of the Hulley Cineplex has passed away. His funeral service will be held at 2:10, 4:20, 8:30.’

Iron smirked. “You like puns too, aye?” asked Copper.

In 2003, I went to the third Lord of the Rings preview. We were a couple of minutes late, but front row seats. The projector malfunctioned during the adverts. The manager came in and said the screening was cancelled. I heard a grown man/passionate orc scream “I’ve waited 10 years for this!”

As I laughed out loud, my mate grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the cinema. I realised on the way out, the whole cinema was filled with people dressed as orcs, elves, dwarves, goblins and whatever else is in Lord of the Rings. We were the only people dressed in jeans and shirts.

I don’t know if the cinema owner survived. We got a refund from the box office and were out of the cinema before anyone else emerged from the screen. Do orcs eat humans? RIP cinema manager guy.

I think that was the last time I went to the cinema… Yikes…

Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Magic Spain

March 6, 2019 LittleFears21 Comments

Brass Ep. 42

They left the school and returned to the main road. Buildings had sunk further than others into the ground here. The roofs of houses and odd chimneys were all that was left peeking out of the soil. In some places, there would be a dark and dusty patch where a house once stood.

One building was noticeably absent. The Spanish magic show house. Un Dos had vanished without a tres.

Today’s video took an hour for YouTube to process and I’m getting a ‘processing’ message on the creators studio page. Apologies if it’s a bit wonky for ya to watch.

Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Pony Up

March 5, 2019 LittleFears6 Comments

Brass Ep. 41

Thirty minutes of Coppers tinkering passed. Computers deconstructed all over the room. She had a bag full of spares.

“That’ll keep us going,” said Copper. “This place looks like a tip though…”

Iron beeped and whirred an acknowledgement and looked about the wreckage. She wasn’t sure what sort of tip Copper meant, but she felt it was a good tip.

Unlike Wheezy Pony, 16-1, 3:30 at Chepstow.

Photo by Nigel Tadyanehondo on Unsplash. Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Basic skills ain’t basic

March 4, 2019 LittleFears6 Comments

That right there is my original drawing of Fuen. Drawn into a little Gusti Leber pad with a black Posca pen and Tippex for the white.

I took the image into GIMP, a free image editing program on PC and Mac. I isolated the doodle. Then put her everywhere.

She’s featured on the front of my first book, January (link! amzn.to/2Evv4Cb ). She’s sold on art-prints (link! etsy.me/2sHiY3a ). She’s been on t-shirts, with an extra hand and mug added (link! littlefears.threadless.com ).

It’s a simple skill. Dead easy! I taught a Skillshare lesson on it while practising my screen recording. How to convert a hand-drawn doodle into a digital graphic. (link! skl.sh/2G40lMs ).

It currently has 237 students with 100% review.

Wait… What? You mean this simple skill isn’t common knowledge? This silly little course is helpful and well rated? Huh… Who’d of thunk it…

But hey, there’s a lesson there right. Sometimes, if you work really hard, you too can be a sunflower.

No, wait, that’s not it…

If you put a character everywhere, you can fill a blog post with stupid amounts of links (link! littlefears.co.uk/?p=8458 ).

No… That’s still not it…

It’s something more like, we all have little skills we take for granted. Try putting them out there.

Also, this course is a premium course. Except for the next 48 hours. For the next 48 hours, it’s free. FREE! Enrol in the course, for free, any time before Wednesday evening and it’s free for life.

Link!… skl.sh/2G40lMs

Good grief that was a lot of links….

Shout out to Bob, the Penguin for buying me another cuppa ko-fi yesterday and thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Slow PC

March 4, 2019 LittleFears24 Comments

Brass Ep 40

Copper arrived in the libraries computer room. She flicked the power switch and a dozen computers beeped to life.

Her fingers danced across the keyboard. A printer came to life and began regurgitating paper with ink spread across it.

Copper’s keyboard tapping soundtrack paused. “Oh, no.” Her screen paused, flickered and turned blue.

She squeaked as the PC crashed all the other computers slowed down to watch.

Shout out to Bob, the Penguin for buying me another cuppa ko-fi yesterday and thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Olivia’s Tree

March 3, 2019 LittleFears11 Comments

By Layne Ambrose

“Seriously another one?” Olivia says.

“Every day Olivia. It is a graveyard after all. People have to go somewhere,” Rufus says in a deflated tone.

“Well can’t they see that we are running out of space here?” Olivia protests.

Rufus shrugs. “Whatever, I’m not sharing my tree. This is my tree so, everyone can just bugger off,” Olivia exclaims.

“Calm down, no one said that you had too,” Rufus says.

“Good because I’m not. I saw that old lady with her dog eyeing my tree. It is totally not happening.”

Story by Layne Ambrose of Chewing-On-Glass.com. Check out Layne’s blog for more glass being chewed. Thanks for the vignette, Layne!

Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Lost Letter

March 1, 2019 LittleFears24 Comments

Brass Ep 39

Copper made her way to the libraries second floor. Bookshelves had collapsed across a number of games tables.

Chess pieces were strewn across the floor. Decks of cards had been scattered in ways that would have made magicians weep. Scrabble boards had been snapped in half, throwing their letters into an alphabet soup over every surface.

Once past the Scrabble boards, she let out a sigh of relief. It was all fun and games until somebody lost an ‘I’.

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Auto Motive

February 28, 2019 LittleFears18 Comments

Brass Ep 38

As copper stripped any salvageable parts from the PC, Iron continued browsing the books.

She found her way into the automotive section. Books lined the shelves with titles relating to cars, motorcycles, tractors and engines. She pulled a book off the shelf titled “A beginners guide to starting combustion engines.”

She turned it over.

Photo by Stanislav Kondratiev on Unsplash. Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Sea Creature

February 27, 2019 LittleFears29 Comments

Fear of Ink (3)

The boat capsized and her limp body plunged into the water.

The only thing she’d felt since the initial sting, aside from creeping paralysis, was a wriggle beneath her skin. Like worms were burrowing through her flesh.

Its tendrils took hold of her body, and she began a gradual descent towards the maw of the beast. She was almost grateful to the sea that filled her lungs. Taking her life before the creature had its meal.

Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.

Scotch Tape

February 27, 2019 LittleFears34 Comments

Brass Ep. 37

They found their way to the library where Copper spotted a lone computer. She pulled out her tools and got to work deconstructing it.

Iron wandered up the aisles of books. “Don’t go too far,” called Copper. Irons claws were nimble enough to open a book, but not sharp enough to turn the pages with accuracy. Tilting her head sideways, she read the book titles.

‘Scotch; The History of Sellotape.’ She debated having a read, but she knew she’d never find the beginning.

Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.