Blythe Appleby is an AU graduate who always has to mention the ‘Great Distinction’ line on her degree. She is a historic interpreter, period clothing specialist, gourmet, and avid reader who likes to write what she likes to read. Her bookshelf is much too small for her tastes.
I’d managed to forget about it (For a week at least), But now it’s here, it’s back again, That truly scary beast. Such a harmless-looking message, It’s in my inbox now: “Your Assignment has been Marked! Click Here, Review it Now!” I didn’t understand them well (The essay options given), And now I’m sure the… Read more »
Have you taken a flight recently? Or even within the last few decades? Then chances are that if you have, you have experienced a long layover at one stage of your journey. The reality is that if you want to take a trip without breaking your bank beyond the usual amounts, you have to settle… Read more »
Everyone has their own nerdy hobby, don’t they? I am the first to admit that I have several, though one in particular leaps to mind. Unfortunately, while most people can lock themselves into secret places to work on their geeky passions, be they building model airplanes or crafting computer programs, mine happens to be one… Read more »
An interesting sidebar about this piece is that though the judges know it as Northern France, 1905, the original title was Jean-Denis Goes Aloft. But that title was only in the file name of the document—a file name that got scrubbed along with all the other meta-data when we anonymized all the entries. Instead, it was sent… Read more »