"her silt" appears in 10 SOL stories, according to advanced search. I'm struggling to think of any situation in which that might be valid ;-)
AJ
"her silt" appears in 10 SOL stories, according to advanced search. I'm struggling to think of any situation in which that might be valid ;-)
AJ
If I encountered that I would presume it was a typo silt->slit.
But would you report it to the author?
AJ
After wading along the shore she lay in the sand for a while then went to the showers to clean off. The cold spray makes her shiver and sends her silt streaming down the drain. Something like that. But I think a better "her silt" must be available. I feel the need to do a little story with that title.
I'm prone to typos, so I checked to see if I was guilty of a possibly improper silt. I found "silt" appears in three of my stores, but always used properly.
She drops the chemise onto the grass and takes a step into the water. It is cold. The swans are almost out of sight. The soft silt settles about her toes. She feels the eyes of the man on her bare bottom. She squats in the shallow water. At first only a dribble, but then the stream comes, splattering the water, a small silvery sound. A bluejay squawks. Her pee finished, she presses two fingers between the lips of her sex, then brings her hand to her nose, to her lips. For a moment she has almost forgotten about the man.
Sharon wants to scream but she doesn't—the shock of the cold water too great. She tries to grip the water. It eludes her. The bottom is soft silt. She stands, slips, stands. She sucks everything about herself deeply in. She's shivering. She's sinking in the silt. The water is up to the undersides of her breasts. The level barely reaches the man's waist. She tries to take a step towards him, loses her footing and goes under again. When she comes up the water doesn't seem quite so cold. Maybe she's gone numb. The man takes a step towards her. He puts his arms around her. He starts rubbing her with the washcloth. She's still shivering. The washcloth feels good. It feels good as he rubs the rough fabric over her back, above and below the water. "Mmm," Sharon hums. She holds the man as he rubs the cloth on her back. It makes her warmer. Her feet slip in the silty bottom. She grasps for the man, her hands grip the muscles of his upper thighs, his butt. He's still wearing his workout pants. He turns her around. He moves the cloth over her breasts, her shoulders, her belly. "Mmm," Sharon says. The sun on her face and the water touching the rest of her feel the same temperature now. The man cleans Sharon's face with the cloth. He is careful to clean every part of her face. Then he kneels in the silt. Sharon feels the cloth on her legs. Her knees, calves, thighs, and bottom. The cloth caresses her cunt. "Mmm," Sharon says. Now she's not sure whether she's hot or cold. She doesn't care.
My feet sink into the soft silt of bottom mud. Soon I'll dunk myself. Submerged, I'll be me again.
Now I wonder whether I've ever intended silt but accidently employed slit.
After wading along the shore she lay in the sand for a while then went to the showers to clean off. The cold spray makes her shiver and sends her silt streaming down the drain. Something like that. But I think a better "her silt" must be available. I feel the need to do a little story with that title.
If she doesn't own the beach, it's not her silt.
Finders keepers.
In the UK, it is illegal for people to remove sand or pebbles from a beach.
AJ
While also being related to being in the UK... you folks confuse me... So in terms of power outlets.... not only do you have to plug an item into the outlet, you have to toggle a switch to say 'Yes I really want this to be powered'.... It's sort of a double negative where you have to plug it in..... doesn't that mean you want it to be turned on.... Jokingly I get the whole AC/DC conversation/differance.
So in terms of power outlets.... not only do you have to plug an item into the outlet, you have to toggle a switch to say 'Yes I really want this to be powered'.... It's sort of a double negative where you have to plug it in..... doesn't that mean you want it to be turned on
I think it's for safety reasons. I personally prefer extension leads where the sockets in the plug bar are individually switchable.
AJ
Definitely Safety related. Your DC current would make you a crispy critter if you stuck a fork in a live outlet. Just one of those location/cultural differences that I love to poke fun at... I mean who the heck gets on a lift when we have a perfectly good elevator over there... or why the hell is it called ground floor where in the states it's the 1st Floor, but overseas 1st floor is reserved for the 2nd floor.
Unless I'm missing something, the UK uses ~230V 50Hz AC mains current. It certainly has more 'crispy critter' potential than ~120V 60Hz, as in the US, but it's generally survivable in the sort of incidents one gets in a house (including fork-into-socket).
As for 'Ground Floor', I've seen thatvso usually overlaps '1st Floor', meaning the '2nd Floor' is the first floor above ground level.
Mexico (the country I'm most familiar with after the US) is much closer to the European system. The ground floor (planta baja) is 'floor zero', and the first floor above ground is piso uno or primer piso (floor one). But sometimes there are other floors above the ground floor (e.g. mezanina) that don't use a floor number.
On the other hand, tourist hotels in Mexico tend to conform to US floor naming conventions.
Ah you're probably right, just take it in the spirit that it was meant jokingly to poke fun of different cultural aspects with my intent being that none were correct or wrong. At the end of the day globally we all get the same thing done even if we use different works or phrases.
I recall a multi-story building that had two entrances that were on different levels of the ground. In the elevator, the bottom level was labeled the 1st floor, while the upper level was labeled the ground floor.
Absolutely, no idea of the rationale for that.
It was not floor -1 ?
I've seen B1,B2... with higher numbers being lower. I've not seen negative numbers used. Of course if they did use negative numbers for basement levels, for logical consistency, they would need a floor zero.
the bottom level was labeled the 1st floor, while the upper level was labeled the ground floor.
I expect they were using a floor numbering system designed by Celsius ;-)
AJ
I'm struggling to think of any situation in which that might be valid ;-)
Eternally Gritty: 10 short stories about love between molluscs.
I am still trying to figure out WHY you went searching for that specific phrase.
Knowing AJ he was dredging for those rare diamonds found in the depths of the dreck that lies beneath the silt that accumulates around certain less visited shelves of the SoL backwaters.
:)
diamonds
Diamonds do nothing for me personally but I have to respect that they're a powerful aphrodisiac for the women of our species ;-)
AJ
Diamonds
The diamonds I was alluding to are those stories you come across (ignore the pun) whilst searching, randomly or not, for other literary gems.
I do this sort of search sometimes on resources like n-Gram or the Oxford Corpus when I see a given typo to see how common it is/was and if it might be archaic usage.
I think we all know it's likely to be a simple typo but I'd be interested to know whether it appears in n-Gram at all.
AJ
You might also like to wonder why I did an advanced search for "non-existant". (60 SOL stories, in case anyone else has their curiosity piqued)
AJ
bread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breads#:~:text=List%20of%20breads,further%20before%20serving.
Looks like Mat Twassel has got in on the act: https://storiesonline.net/s/23942/slit-silt