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It was clear to him that there was a woman on the moon, quite possibly waiting to be rescued since the Great Depression. Now that the macroeconomic cycle had come round again, as scientists all across the planet were busying themselves with explanations of why and how history seemed to repeat itself like a girl on a playground swinging back and forth and back and forth, few were thinking of space travel and he might be able to snatch a rocket from an abandoned shuttle site to visit that woman in her oracular wasteland, bring her back to Earth and find love once and for all. |
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Frau im Mond by Marcus Speh
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52|250 A Year of Flash 
Yes! Love once and for all… beautiful. Like the prose poem format here a lot.
thank you, susan. i’m forever confused about prose|poem. someone needs to explain this to me some time. love, yes!
And Groucho said, “talk about your long distance relationships.”
Nice approach to the theme. Cheers!
hehe, randal, enjoying the groucho here…thanks very much and cheers backatcha!
what a ride of thoughts and images. that’s so thought-provoking: history a girl on a playground swinging back and forth. and then, the sudden turn to love.
+ great, this sudden german title for a story written in english. Frau im Mond.
thank you, dorothee. you know the lang movie i suppose which is where i got the title from? i always loved that movie and the accompanying movie poster. the movie is online in its entirety – legally – watch it here.
You are continually verging on new explorations of themes and stories and methods in which to write them. I like the German title and the nearly one-sentence paragraph, very Whitman-esque. And to end on love. Ahhh. Without the Disney schmaltz.
thank you, robert, i really appreciate your close reading and the meta angle which you use to analyse writing … this is weimarer schmaltz if anything – check out the movie itself in my previous reply…and write well!
Lots of imagination and dreams in just two sentences. Thanks for sharing!
thanks, catherine! as i said above: working “from a movie” image helps with that. so many associations went already into that story. the art of the flash is then perhaps to bring it back to life. looking forward to read your stuff this week, too…
This put a smile on my face. Thanks.
thanks darryl. on mine too, whenever i read this. the longing! this is actually one of my own favorite stories. perhaps because it’s the kind of thing i used to do.
Yay for lieb und die frau im Mond!
Wonderful lightness. Danke! Peace…
thanks linda, appreciate it. lightness indeed – love knows no distance!
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Love the form that sets the pace, a single sentence of a wish, a dream, a hope that prevails against the odds of flying from earth to moon. Perfect!