Wallflower

       Glare from the windshields in the parking lot below bothered her eyes. Fiona drew away from the riot of color and rejoined the hallway, where drab buttercups dotted the wallpaper and pale lilies framed in tarnished gold metallic emphasized the antique nature of the geriatric population.

So Serious Saturday #31

Fiction needs a basis in reality. Exercising non-fiction muscles once in a while benefits an active imagination, channeling creative energies as it focuses on a subject. So Serious Saturdays will be an active place for critical essays or writing about reality in the context of real events - even when it is not written on Saturdays.

Type: Perspective

A Word on Beauty and Roles

       People complain about how Hollywood treats women poorly, and how if you are female and you want to be a star you play a love interest or someone’s mother, or The Frustrated Nag if it’s comedy 

or deadly serious drama.

      When a slightly different role for a woman is created by a television show or movie experiment, people laud it as being inspirational, for a woman being placed in the role of a strong character. The new show about Supergirl was one of these excitements. Wonder Woman will probably be stronger, being a big-budget movie. 

Making of a Blouse

Origami sheets and fabric
fold into a form of magic;

stretched across a wooden frame,
a woven cloth becomes the same.

Tighten corners, crease the fold,
stretch and pull for time untold.

Make sure the sides are even cut
before the pattern's open, shut.

Now to add the final touch:
a stitch or two won't cost too much.

Pack the crates, and stuff the planes -
at port and shipyard unfold cranes.