https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3 Local Color + Description + Action + Dialogue + Character Reflection en-us 2021-03-10 15:00:26 UTC 2025-12-03 15:43:06 UTC hello@padlet.com adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322818561 Lune-green and amber, a strip of fading sky glowed across the trail of the vanished sun.]]> 2021-03-17 21:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322818561 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322988449 A long, tense moment, with sea and sky waiting, and a rim of raw gold thrust itself above the horizon as the full moon of midsummer climbed toward the zenith.]]> 2021-03-17 22:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322988449 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322989943 ...his small, deep-set eyes were like glittering crumbs of black glass

]]> 2021-03-17 22:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322989943 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322992086 Like a vampire from the pit, it rose into the air, blotting out the moon with its monstrous bulk, and then dropped back with a crash, raising a wave which nearly swamped the canoe.]]> 2021-03-17 22:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322992086 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322994451 ...the paddlers caught the crest of a huge wave and in an instant were swept ten feet in air toward the patch of beach which showed beyond the little lagoon.

]]> 2021-03-17 22:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1322994451 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323000660 As the cold, deadly eyes stared implacably into his, the beating of his laboring heart sounded in his ears like a drum of doom.]]> 2021-03-17 22:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323000660 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323006372 2021-03-17 22:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323006372 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323021740 As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively.]]> 2021-03-17 22:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323021740 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323024823  He smiled agreeably to himself as he thought of those biscuits, each cut open and sopped in bacon grease, and each enclosing a generous slice of fried bacon]]> 2021-03-17 22:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323024823 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323030130 The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold.]]> 2021-03-17 23:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323030130 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323032650 The result was that a crystal beard of the color and solidity of amber was increasing its length on his chin.]]> 2021-03-17 23:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323032650 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323037966 Once, coming around a bend, he shied abruptly, like a startled horse, curved away from the place where he had been walking, and retreated several paces back along the trail. ]]> 2021-03-17 23:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323037966 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323057657 He pulled on his mittens with his teeth, and threshed his arms back and forth, beating his hands with all his might against his sides.]]> 2021-03-17 23:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1323057657 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1329537600 2021-03-19 12:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1329537600 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330101992 2021-03-19 14:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330101992 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330115224 2021-03-19 14:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330115224 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330235007 The long June twilight faded into night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Liffey]]> 2021-03-19 15:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330235007 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330238132 Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms. Republicans and Free Staters were waging civil war.]]> 2021-03-19 15:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330238132 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330256730 The turret opened. A man’s head and shoulders appeared, looking toward the sniper. The sniper raised his rifle and fired. The head fell heavily on the turret wall. The woman darted toward the side street. The sniper fired again. The woman whirled round and fell with a shriek into the gutter.]]> 2021-03-19 15:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330256730 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330260339 Suddenly from the opposite roof a shot rang out and the sniper dropped his rifle with a curse. The rifle clattered to the roof. The sniper thought the noise would wake the dead. He stooped to pick the rifle up. He couldn’t lift it. His forearm was dead. “I’m hit,” he muttered.]]> 2021-03-19 15:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330260339 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330264978 Taking off his cap, he placed it over the muzzle of his rifle. Then he pushed the rifle slowly upward over the parapet, until the cap was visible from the opposite side of the street. Almost immediately there was a report, and a bullet pierced the center of the cap. The sniper slanted the rifle forward. The cap clipped down into the street. Then catching the rifle in the middle, the sniper dropped his left hand over the roof and let it hang, lifelessly. After a few moments he let the rifle drop to the street. Then he sank to the roof, dragging his hand with him.]]> 2021-03-19 15:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330264978 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330277699 The large woman simply turned around and kicked him right square in his blue-jeaned sitter. Then she reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shook him until his teeth rattled.]]> 2021-03-19 15:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330277699 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330294828 “But you put yourself in contact with me,” said the woman. “If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”]]> 2021-03-19 15:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330294828 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330329393 basically the whole story was dialogue. ]]> 2021-03-19 15:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1330329393 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1350174456 The bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Angel’s, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance.]]> 2021-03-24 21:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1350174456 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1353216094 Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat me down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.]]> 2021-03-25 14:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1353216094 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1353225305 “Now, Valentine,” said the warden, “you’ll go out in the morning. Brace up, and make a man of yourself. You’re not a bad fellow at heart. Stop cracking safes, and live straight.”]]> 2021-03-25 14:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1353225305 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359827452 When I think of the hometown of my youth, all that I seem to remember is dust — the brown, crumbly dust of late summer — arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet.]]> 2021-03-27 13:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359827452 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359829503 a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust]]> 2021-03-27 13:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359829503 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359834488 My mother, who was small and soft, was now the strength of the family; my father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child.]]> 2021-03-27 13:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359834488 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359862878 But old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs, and so when we sighted the tumbledown shack, we had to stop to reinforce our nerves.]]> 2021-03-27 14:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359862878 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359878808 I leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying the perfect yellow blooms. ]]> 2021-03-27 14:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359878808 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359906497 She threw open a door and I went into a chamber, where, to my unspeakable surprise, instead of finding Mr. Skimpole stretched upon the bed or prostrate on the floor,]]> 2021-03-27 14:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359906497 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359908883 “And really, my dear Miss Summerson,” said Mr. Skimpole with his agreeable candour, “I never was in a situation in which that excellent sense and quiet habit of method and usefulness, which anybody must observe in you who has the happiness of being a quarter of an hour in your society, was more needed.”]]> 2021-03-27 14:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1359908883 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1393529275 The pacing of the man overhead who, to judge from his nervous step, was thinking of something harassing, or was suffering from toothache, and the monotonous scales gave the stillness of the evening a drowsiness that disposed to lazy reveries.]]> 2021-04-07 22:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1393529275 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1393533709 He was a child whose sex could only have been guessed from his dress: weakly, white-faced, and fragile. He was limp like a hot-house plant, and everything about him seemed extraordinarily soft and tender: his movements, his curly hair, the look in his eyes, his velvet jacket.]]> 2021-04-07 22:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1393533709 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1393673923 But the touch of the caressing baby arms; the pressure of the soft little body in the night; the tones of the voice, and the feeling of the hot lips when the child kissed her, believing herself to be with her mother, were impressions that had sunk through the crust of madame's prejudice and reached her heart.]]> 2021-04-07 23:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1393673923 adeleburg https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1393688822 The morning was a delicious one, soft and mild; and the roses were all in bloom.]]> 2021-04-07 23:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/adeleburg/xewgqmzedgvmoih3/wish/1393688822