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Brass Ep. 51
“Did you hear that?” gasped Copper.
Iron looked back up the road, eyes narrowed. Copper followed Irons gaze. She saw movement on top of a building in the distance. A spot of black with two shining eyes.
“Do you see its eyes?” asked Copper.
Iron cocked her head to one side and gave her a nod.
“I do like an eye pun,” remarked Copper. “The cornea the better.”
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Brass Ep. 50
Metallic fish were strewn across the street outside the chip shop. Iron nudged the handlebars of a motorcycle with her nose. ‘Triumph’ embossed on the petrol tank. The rest of the bike had sunk into the dirt road.
“On Fridays, two shoals of robot fish riding motorcycles or mopeds would come here and have a dust-up,” sighed Copper.
Iron dug around the tank. As she loosened the soil what was let of the bike sunk below ground level. Copper pulled Iron away from the sinking vehicle.
“It was very seventies,” she continued. “Codrophenia.”
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Painting by Dee
“Hey there Fears,” said Sprite. “Back from the conference?”
“Yeah,” grumbled Lucy.
“Don’t sound very happy,” pointed out Spectre. “Was everything alright?”
“Fine, fine,” replied Yuffie.
“It’s just…” pondered Fuen, “the hotel took our wake up call a bit seriously…”
“Oh, aye?” chuckled Sprite.
“Yeah,” moaned Clouds. “At 6 am, the manager knocked on our doors and yelled ‘what are you doing with your life?'”
Painting by Dee of deesdailyjournal.wordpress.com Check out Dee’s blog for her (not quite daily) poetry. Thanks for the paintin, Dee!
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Brass Ep. 49
They passed a building that had no roof. Iron recalled a story from this corner of town. Eight women built a rocket in their attics over the course of six years. They wrote a book about their exploits, sales of which went through the roof.
The ladies managed to get their rocket launched. Unfortunately, they never returned. It was presumed, they were loft in space.
Man, I still feel awkward with the ‘through the roof’ punchline. It doesn’t matter how far detached you get from the original joke, it’s always there at the back of ya mind.
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Brass Ep. 47
Iron marvelled at the multicoloured liquids bottles inside the window. Every colour she could imagine. Deep reds; Berry purples; Sunset yellow; Burnt orange; Apple green. She was in awe. Cocktails from around the world preserved inside.
“I think I knew the barmaid, a hulking great spider robot,” pondered Copper.
Iron raised up on her hind legs, front claws against the window to get a better look of the inside.
“She quit bar work,” continued Copper, “and become a web developer.”
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Brass Ep. 46
Glass shards and sculpted steel reached up out of the ground. Clawing upwards towards the sign for the financial district.
Broken screens ticked from within what remained of the buildings. Mannequins stood beneath the screens. Papers in hands, and endless cry for more money.
Iron spotted the sign for the stock market. She wondered if they sold chicken, beef or vegetable broths.
Soup is a staple for the frugal, like me. My soup is roughly 1 500 g bag of broth. 2.5 kettles of water. 4 chopped carrots. 4 chopped onions. 4 vegetable stock cubes and 4 tablespoons Bistro veg gravy. I freeze it in bowls and heat them in the microwave. It provides between 16-20 bowls.
I follow a lot of vegetarian food blogs, and sometimes, I do wish posts could be as short as that. I get that your mums, cousins, twice removed niece is coming for the holidays from the Bahamas. I understand she’s bringing her cat, Floofoo who’s hypoallergenic and once had the mumps. And I totally agree that the new DeviantArt eclipse is awesome.
But I don’t need sixteen paragraphs of it before you tell me a recipe for simple soda bread. For love of all that is good and natural, learn some conciseness people!
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They paused outside the Drunk Duck brewery. Copper knelt next to a dismantled robot and stroked its forehead.
Iron noticed the brewery’s robot seemed to have been designed with only one leg. She figured it had been in charge of hops.
Copper stood up and continued walking. It was then Iron noticed Copper’s mismatched backplate with a faded duck logo.
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“Hey, Fuen,” called the chicklets. “Tell us a story!”
“Alright,” replied Fuen. The chicklets leaned in. “Once upon a time, there was a little girl. And she said ‘bollocks to this!'”
“Then what happened?” gasped the chicklets.
“She did shit her own way,” replied Fuen, “and lived happily ever after.”
A story within a story… Meta…
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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.
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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.
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Little Fears 