Message in a Bottle #28
Origin: Isle of Write
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Recipients: Steemit Creatives
So many glittery distractions festooning the Isle’s sun drenched shores this week... A beachcomber’s paradise! Strolling along the waterline, one’s eyes are repeatedly caught and held by the sparkle of some sand-encrusted novelty. Pick any of these up, examine it, and you will see a tiny world, with its own rules and processes, populated by fascinating flora and fauna. Drink it in, the beauty and strangeness of it. Then raise your eyes to the sun bleached landscape, and find another. And another...
“Faeries can be hidden just under a leaf. A large stick found that becomes a sword and the dogs around are trusted traveling companions.”
https://steemit.com/prose/@amrauthor/childhood-wonder
Have you ever heard of “hickory syrup?” I hadn’t! Humanity’s ingenuity when it comes to food always amazes me. Here 
“I had never heard of hickory syrup, but I guessed I could tap those trees as well, once the maples were done. Um, no. Hickory syrup, as it turns out, is not made from the sap of the trees, but from their bark; shagbark hickory bark, to be exact. The original European settlers were taught how to make it by the Cherokee, and by the turn of the last century, it was an important cottage industry throughout the region.”
https://steemit.com/thirtydayhaikuchallenge/@crescendoofpeace/hickory-syrup-day-78-daily-haiku
Ok, this is the most laugh-out-loud thing you’re likely to read today. Do your funny bone a favor and check out 
“I particularly liked the authors use of caps to scream their indignant space-garbage rage at me. The first sentence had me nodding in agreement. Sure, firing our garbage into space could be a real-world problem that needs addressing and how to get it down again, don't get me started!
“All I knew was that a short exceptionally pale female, with asian features that screamed Callisto prime, was holding me 6 feet in the air by pure force of her mind. The world went silent as my gaze hit those large pale grey eyes of hers, that mock the usual conformity of Callistan DNA. I knew right then and there that she had stolen my heart…”
https://steemit.com/writing/@tygertyger/utopia-entry-to-the-tell-a-story-to-me-by-calluna
“My feathers caught the air and grabbed the spaces between atoms. Branes thrummed, manifolds pulsed and strings danced under my wings. Reality itself bent to my will, defying gravity to keep me afloat. Gliding silently through the air, I cloaked myself with the colors of the night, aiming for a balcony on the second floor.”
https://steemit.com/story/@cheah/instrument-of-wrath
“"A bit of pixie dust?" she asked the neon cowboy. He seemed to wink.”
https://steemit.com/lasvegas/@wordymouth/greyhound-arriving-part-2
Ok… so this particular curator is a bit of a pushover for poetry, which is why there are four selections here, instead of the usual three ;)
https://steemit.com/poetry/@wandrnrose7/progression-of-if-original-poetry
The shortest poem I’ve ever read by 
https://steemit.com/poetry/@carmalain7/well-scuffed-ball
https://steemit.com/poetry/@lazarus-wist/apocalypse-and-sunday-two-micro-poems
https://steemit.com/poetry/@mamadini/dawn-i-day-26-of-100-poetry-challenge
https://steemit.com/fiction/@raj808/robbed-time-freewrite-prompt-ash
https://steemit.com/weekendfreewrite/@byn/momma-s-boy-storytime-saturday-3-part-weekend-freewrite
As usual, 
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@honeydue/look-see-freewrite
Remember to post with the isleofwrite tag (it doesn’t have to be the first tag in the list, just one of them) for a chance to be showcased as part of the Isle’s weekly curation series! Otherwise, our beachcombers might miss it...
