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The Ugly Siren

She might be quite ancient but I really don't care
for she's put on her make-up and dyed her long hair.
I whisper a greeting and we start to spin
while I look to my mates and I...

I quite enjoyed writing that poem last week, so I thought I might create some more. My latest poem I entitle, "Behind a Curtain". As always, critique is warmly welcomed. Thank you for taking the time...

Thank you very much, I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Do you have any advice for improvement?

You mean 366 days earlier...? :tongue:

For me, Characters come first. A story with a lacklustre world but strong characters will get published, a story with a wonderfully developed world but weak characterisation will not. With that in...

I've not written a poem before. Critique welcome. I entitle this "The Job":

A child once, my dream career
had only birds for company:
I pursued it for all that I was worth;
Through the mocking...

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The fog gathered itself silently, awakened slowly by the cold ground beneath its restful form. At first it felt around with exhileration, tasting the night air and listening to the...

Yes but that is my job, so I would want to get as far away from that as possible!

I have the best job in the world, but I would still jack it all in if I won the Lottery.

The discovery website has a more informative article. Planetary body collision has issues that can't seem to be accounted for. The only serious natural explanation is comets being thrown inward by a...

The discovery website has a more informative article. Planetary body collision has issues that can't seem to be accounted for. The only serious natural explanation is comets being thrown inward by a...

The star is called KIC 846285, which proves that there are no intelligent aliens there. If there were, the aliens would have given it a catchier name.

Terrible acting, terrible stereotyping and terrible direction. I mean seriously. Oriental guy onboard. Guess who is the one who can use swords? All the women wake up from years in stasis with...

Does anyone have any advice on how to install this to the Steam version of Med2? Now that the kingdoms campaigns are featured as DLC apart her than a standalone product, the installer can't find...

I'm against abortion. The only time there might be a case for it is if there is no possible way for the child to live after delivery, or if the mother has an extremely high chance of death during...

As part of the avionics, it's vital that the ability to turn off thentransponder resides with the pilot in case of an avionics fire caused by the transponder. There are also other reasons that the...

Its actually very important for a pilot to be able to override the emergency access code that lets you into the flight deck. Firstly, the code is necessary for all crew, flight and cabin, to know in...

Firstly, I have addressed most of what you've written in my post, which you didn't seem to read too well. So I'll restate it.

Yes you can have a job with below 1500 hours, but your employ,net...

Got to say, I take umbrage with most of what was in that quote. I've seen that attitude a couple of times on the line, and what it boils down to is a total lack of understanding of commercial pilot...

The cabin crew undergo the same security checks as we do. They don't get psychologically evaluated, but then neither do many pilots.



Would you believe we actually have an axe in the cockpit?...

I'm an actual Airbus A320 pilot based in Europe. If you have any specific questions please feel free to ask it here and I'll answer them, but you have all seem to have answered most that have arisen...

The thing is, what do you expect? Fly for a national carrier and you'll usually pay a lot more. I have flown to Spain from the UK several times this year and each time it cost me under £40 for return...

Thanks very much. I'm really happy that you like it. This is just a prologue - the main story will have more narrative and start from Gwenne learning of her brother's death. It'll be a long one but...

Hi all,

I'm a bit nervous putting this on here, as aside for one Tale of the Week (which I lost!) I have never shown anything I've written to anyone. I'd appreciate feedback. Please don't be too...

Thanks to whoever voted for my tale. You're very kind.

Here's a question: on the TotW 223, where everybody has to make 2 votes, there have been 4 people vote but only 5 votes cast. I know I messed up and so passed my vote on to the mod, but what about...

Menelaus, Helen's husband whom Paris took back to Troy, was king of Sparta. The Achilles' tendon is the name given to tendon above the heel. These tendons are what Achilles cut after his fight with...

An old thread, but it's terribly sad that the wreckage still hasn't been found. I can't imagine what those families are going through. It seems to have dropped off of everybody's radar, which is...

The Goat, the Horse and the Bull.

Screams filled the deep, stifling Pontus night, bestial and terrifying. Gongs bellowed in answer and all of the estate, from wheat fields in the south to the...

I am curious as to whether anybody has run into any issues with posting work on here, or anywhere on the internet for that matter, when trying to subsequently publish said work. For example, if I...

The trick to any interview is to collect stories. Most interviews are heavily competency-based, which means provided examples of when you have had such and such experience. Never try to come up with...

As other people have said, depression isn't always about some bad situation in someone's life. That's quite an uninformed statement. Sometimes, it is a physical condition affecting the chemical...

I've world quite a few jobs, now. First job was a paper round (route, for the yanks). Later I got a full time temporary job packing envelopes in a warehouse. From there I 'progressed' into pulling a...

Hello there Shaba,

Firstly I'd like to thank you not only for your modding but for allowing the community to use all of your hard work. It's very much appreciated by many people here.

I have...