The Daily Vignette: Opening Shot

I have an idea. My idea is that I could post a vignette a day to my journal to improve my fiction writing and writing in general. Plus keep everyone here entertained. So hopefully this will be the first of many.

The soil moved for the first time in tens of dozens of years. The rich, but pebbly loam being dug by a garden spade. The bottle waited with its charge of mystery. It once had been marked with a white paint symbol that would have reminded the enchanter what he had filled it with. Now two centuries of slow aging had slowly reduced the paint to flakes held to the surface of the bottle by the dirt alone. Would it be at last found? The square glass pulled from the ground so long after it was buried to save it from fire and the prying inquires of the Bóginki. If it were found might someone at last drink the fine liquor stored within it and unknowingly gain the spirit that lay dormant in it? The next few minutes would tell as the gardener continued to dig in the warming vegetable patch.

Sudden Wonder

A Pointless Story
When I was about 12 or 13 I saw something wonderful on PBS. It came out of no where, a short put on between two other shows to fill up the time. Seven minutes that were among the best on television. It was Next: The Infinite Variety Show, a short of seven minutes of a stop action puppet Shakespeare performing bits from every one of his plays.

It was one of the things that I really liked about Channel 12. That on occasion something brilliant would just happen. They would regularly put on short programs to fill up time.

Now thanks to power of the web I finally know that it was created by Barry Purves of from Aardman Animations. They even have it available on their website, though only in a region 2 DVD. Someday I will own this, because when I saw it back in about 1990 I was totally stunned. I wanted desperately to collect this, and I suppose it is why I sometimes go around the web saving quick time trailers and shorts. I don't want to let something wonderful like this get away.

I would collect certain advertisements too if I could. I just need to figure out a way, since it isn't exactly something one can just go down to the corner Best Buy to get. But I like the quality of sudden wonder that a really beautiful sequences of images appearing suddenly has.