she bit her lip at the sight of his adam’s apple, sliding under the pale milky skin of his throat like a sweet boiled candy.
inspired by derek shockey’s incredible the black rider – a portrait of tom waits that got under my skin. /
So this is what happens when Melbourne bubblers get together for a pre-xmas dinner: amongst green tea and white wine, and quivering balls…
So this is what happens when Melbourne bubblers get together for a pre-xmas dinner: amongst green tea and white wine, and quivering balls of octopus flesh, we fell into a passionate table thumping debate about the seven deadly sins and their role in our lives. For each of us with an ardent connection to a particular sin, there was another with a distinct aversion to it. The merits and downsides of each were analysed and debated (this is where the table thumping came in – seaweed salad almost went flying), and to our surprise there were greatly differing opinions and various semantic interpretations. Isn’t lust also passion for your creative desires? If so, how does that relate to the Buddhist treatise that desire is the root of suffering (don’t get me started on this one!)? Surely pride links to wrath, and what’s the difference between revenge and retaliation? Is sloth always a sin, and surely there’s room for gluttony? This arose as the delectable black sesame icecream arrived, and the dueling of the spoons began :-) During this discussion we revealed layers of ourselves to our beloved friends with honesty, trust and recognition, and at the end of the night we realised with a start that the six of us each laid claim to an individual sin. Except one. Which is where YOU come in. We’ve decided to do a collaboration of the Seven Deadly Sins. Each of us will write of our particular sin, whichever way we interpret it, and upload it on New Year’s Eve. I’ve wrestled with wrath for much of my life, as my lovingly detailed Medusa tattoo attests, and this is my challenge. Jessica Tremp will take envy, Yasemin Sumner knows pride, Lucky Vegetable will write of gluttony, Michael Alesich will write of sloth, and Sheamus D will take lust. And if you know your sins…and I think you do….you’ll know what’s missing is greed. If greed is a sin you wrestle with, write a piece relating to it and tag it with sevensinscomp, and upload it on New Year’s Eve (maximum 1000 words). We’ll decide on the entry we feel fits best, and we’ll personally take the winner out to dinner and invite them to be guest of honour at the next Melbourne writers’ meeting. If you’re not a Melbourne local, feel free to still enter – Red Bubble has offered as a prize either a copy of In The Moment or Gaia , which will be posted out to you. The offer of dinner will still stand, and might inspire you to plan a trip to Melbourne – just think of the table thumping and black sesame icecream opportunities available with fellow Red Bubblers in our beautiful city! There are often collaborations between photographers, so this is a way for the writers to connect and get ideas flowing. If you don’t feel up to writing a piece about it, feel free to leave your thoughts below on the sins that pertain to your life …sometimes when you get ideas flowing, the piece writes itself. So get your thinking glasses on and start writing….. There will be wine….. There will be laughter….. There will be always be words to play with….. So come to our table….and bring your greed with you!
Feeling greedy? Our collaboration here...
Feeling greedy? Our collaboration here was from lots of fun with these people / / / and of the course the infamous red head Do you want to be the seventh sin? Look Here
Finish it.
She falls onto all fours
7 sins collaboration
Well, sometimes. / Sometimes I awoke to myself and said no. / Mostly I said, hell yeah.
I wrote this piece for the sevensinscomp / Hardly what you were hoping for here, lol, but in every writing forum there should always be at least one example of barely comprehensible, formless, deranged ranting kicking up some chaos amongst it’s betters. / Dontcha think? ;) Happy New Year!
How about some bones of bastards to sharpen your fangs on?
This is for a collaboration of Melbourne writers on the seven deadly sins. Wrath is without a doubt the main ‘sin’ I wrestle with, and has poisoned my life in many ways. Sometimes, the best antidote for that poison is humour. Forgive me for entwining the Greek and Roman pantheons…..how sinful, hey?
You wake me with a sound, / a breath of vibration / A shake of an eardrum. / A pulse of the mind. You ask of my feeling to leave this h…
This is my slothful piece for the seven sins collaboration Please read these enticing pieces for the other five: pride lust gluttony wrath envy or enter your own greed piece.
We sleep easily together, Greed and I, as there is a simple honesty in admitting to his presence.
Greed as a sin, claimed for the Seven Sins Competition for NYE. May the greediest win.
A hamlet lives harmoniously / Spun loosely into the earth of a cul-de-sac / ___________...
For the Seven Sin’s Comp
I am the rain that falls upon desert sands, / I am the excess that spilt from desperately clasped hands.
A little ditty inspired by the Melbourne & Victoria group writing collaboration / / Peace, Love and fulfillment to you all for 2009! :D / / Australiana / Born of This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Travel / Architecture / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Beautiful Humans / / . / You can also listen to PLV’s music
Started out being about greed, reads more like being about gluttony, but really I think is about sloth.
Inspired by the Melbourne & Victoria group 7 Sins writing collaboration …
SSSSSSSS makes a perfect sound / on the lips / of the Slothiest girl in town
For the Seven Sins Comp Hmmmmm Sloth seems to be a safe place for many to be held as the craziness whirls outside in the ever expanding universe, like those little / creatures that feed and live off the backs of rhinos or elephants or giant whales! So I guess SLOTH girl has a purpose like all of us even when that seems hard to believe of someone so outside what life expects….. This is dedicated to Steve Hook who saved my work when I accidently deleted it What a wonderful wonderful thing, I am beaming!!!! thank u dear friend xox
Just spent like a good two hours typing my text for the seven sins comp called The Slothiest Girl in Town, and as I was making revisio…
Just spent like a good two hours typing my text for the seven sins comp called The Slothiest Girl in Town, and as I was making revisions I accidently deleted most of it cept the very last paragraph (who said there are NO accidents?!) ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! It wasn’t super super good, twas okay I thought, anyone read it before I zapped / / it into cyber trash lands?? ( Lucky Mr Hook got to read before it disappeared! Now you are my only hope for feedback !!!I do expect a four page critic of course you must delete it b4 I can get to read it) Please give me some juice to give it another go guys! PS Note to self, favorite everything before you make revisions, so you have the original to fall back on!!! AGRRRRHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Please revisit The Slothiest Girl in Town as saved …
Please revisit The Slothiest Girl in Town as saved by the fabulous Steve Hook ahhhhhhhh MY HERO!
At the top of Baldwin Street Dunedin, there’s an enormous man lying in bed, in the drizzling rain. At the moment he’s satellited by four …
written for the Melbourne group collaboration Seven Deady Sins
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