Eric Priezkalns

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The Stars Are All Above Us

Around the world tonight, The stars are all above us. Me in darkness, others in light, But the stars are all above us. People eating, drinking, sleeping, Around the...

Halfthoughts Reconstructed

I started Halfthoughts in 2008, as an open-ended, half-thought-out repository of... whatever. That was in 2008! The content moved on a long...

Badger and Corblimey

In more recent posts, I digressed to tell the flashback story of the young Lady Emerald. Returning to the original thread, after Karen...

Not Another Day/The Twine of Relief and Tension

In the last installment of Karen Zipslicer stories, Karen is still using the black box machine to relive the memories of Dawn, the young...

The Evening’s Epilogue; Tomorrow’s Preface

In 'Dawn of the Dance', Karen continues to relive the experiences of the young Lady Emerald. The Lady Emerald, then known as Dawn,...

Around and Ahead

For Jude We're back, where we began, Or near enough, cosmologically speaking. A time, to mark occasion, Has arrived, if we're chronology-keeping. Once more, into those breeches, We squeeze ourselves,...

YouTube Pron

After reading how people make money from films they post to YouTube, I sat down and tried to write a comedy script for the...

Dawn of the Dance

In 'Falling Into Emerald Memories' we explored an episode of Karen Zipslicer's adventure where she uses a machine to relive the memories of the...

Picturing Where I Want to Be

There is a place I want to go, So please indulge this harmless fantasy That I want to share with you. I'm not sure if it exists...

Episodes of an Unknown Man

A man pours himself into a glass. A man stands in the dark. He switches on the light to the corridor, and is silhouetted...

Falling Into Emerald Memories

Recently I have spent a lot more time working on Karen Zipslicer's adventures in Lundern, and I took to writing them as a correctly...

Boots and All

On her first night in Lundern, Karen fell asleep in the attic of Winton, the cobbler. What would she discover on her first morning...

About Halfthoughts

This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.