This one comes with the time of year. January is the month of the keeper of gates as the year turns yet again. Janus, the god of the month, is, as we all know well, a two-faced deity.
So, could we please have a work of whatever length you wish and in whatever genre you choose on the theme of looking forward or looking back?
A while since we’ve had prescribed words and you can thank Mrs M for these ones. She was having a girls’ liquid lunch today and I interrupted the three of them and the two bottles of Chardonnay involved to ask for such words. They are:-
‘party’, ‘permanent’ and ‘accident’.
Not essential if you choose not to work them into your effort but I have to warn you that I will give serious weight to their creative use in the event of a tie.
The deadline is 12 midnight GMT on 31st January 2011.
Entries to Date – please click on the author’s name to read their entry
Janus – ‘ A Permanent Reminder’
Araminta – ‘The Political Wife’
The Royalist – ‘Canvasses and Mattresses’
Pseu – ‘Perfect Conkers’
OZ – ‘Mores! O Mores! (II)’
Boadicea's Chariot 
Two-faced, my Backside! 🙂
“A WANDERER is man from his birth.
He was born in a ship
On the breast of the river of Time;
Brimming with wonder and joy
He spreads out his arms to the light,
Rivets his gaze on the banks of the stream.”
Naeh, not mine, I reget to admit but Matthew Arnold’s ‘The Future’. It continues…..
http://www.poetseers.org/the_romantics/matthew_arnold/library/the_future/
“On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef
of the universes and of the future.”
Walt Whitman. http://www.poetseers.org/early_american_poets/walt_whitman/whitmans_poetry/on_the_beach_at_night_alone/
Crikey
Bit of a challenge, John!
The three words pretty quickly have suggested a theme for me…. but not sure how to proceed
Morning Mr Mackie. You’ve finished with all your Bank Holidays now? 😉
Must have a go at this. I missed the last comp.
Reminds me of this…
Jm, here’s a contribution –
http://bearsy.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/a-permanent-reminder-jms-january-cw-competition/
A dark tale of sex, politics and adultery:
https://charioteers.org/2011/01/23/the-political-wife-january-short-story/
You have been warned!
Thanks Ara.
Good to see that there is now a competition. A week to go if anybody else can be bothered to enter.
I’m unusually ahead of myself this month, John. I rarely even think about it at this point, but I may even have time to do another entry; not promising anything though. 🙂
There is still, by my standards anyway, oodles of time!
Still thinking……
OZ
Hmmmm…..
life busy.
Embryo of idea needs nourishment…. can I do it? Crikey. What pressure.
Calm down, John-Boy (details of which to follow soon), seven days is a long time in Charioteer creative writing circles.
https://charioteers.org/2011/01/23/canvasses-and-mattresses-jms-creative-comp/
Duly noted, JW.
A contribution from me. Longer than usual, sorry….
https://charioteers.org/2011/01/24/perfect-conkers/
Erm, please could I slip this under the door?
https://charioteers.org/2011/01/24/cw-comp-mores-o-mores-ii/
OZ