life is a dance with the reaper

Walking in the darkest reaches of my mind and live out the unthinkable in fiction. Imaginings on the dark side.

Author and Keeper of the Pages, Aletta Mes – born in Amsterdam, 1954, living in Vancouver, BC Canada

I’m an opinionated old crone, but I’ve bloody well earned it. I still believe in the individual’s opinions and energies having the possibility to change the world. Ripples from casting a stone in the water of time. Indifference is a sin, so I cannot in good conscience keep my mouth shut. Hopefully some will find it enjoyable, entertaining, or even enlightening, and I will try to hold to my personal standards of excellence and aesthetics.

I welcome feedback, please use the comments section or any of the blog rating systems available on this page, it helps me to know what the reader feels and thinks about the work. –aletta
for more about me check my other blogs

Aletta’s Atelier  –  Sparrows   –  Alettabaletta  – Tellurian Flora

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The three most recent posts:

• A Personal Hell -
• To Remember Friends Who Passed in 2014 -
• Lifecycles - The painting is an autobiography,  watched over and influenced, keeping one corner light signifies hope, but the darkness is intruding, overshadowing.
• Merry Christmas -
• My greeting card for the season -
• a small diversion using Gimp - click to see full size animated dancer
• Cruelty of a Prognosis - I was told I had probably MS in the 1990’s, a horrible disease, but lots of research being done, and people living productive lives with it. That changed as symptoms changed and progressed steadily and more physicians and specialists were consulted which changed the diagnosis to Shy-Drager Syndrome in 1998 and was then given 2-6…Read more Cruelty of a Prognosis
• Best Wishes to Everyone -
• A Little Fun Macabre -
• Excerpt chalk Dancers -

Drop down archive still trying to put a title on the bar,  but t works

-- A Personal Hell To Remember Friends Who Passed in 2014 Lifecycles Merry Christmas My greeting card for the season a small diversion using Gimp Cruelty of a Prognosis Best Wishes to Everyone A Little Fun Macabre Excerpt chalk Dancers Holiday Greetings Brush Stokes on a Grey Day Progress on the Easel All the best to you and yours Study for Chalk Dancers My Little Utopia Angel Falls Olympic Size Poverty Time Spent… Gargoyle Gallery The Garden of Whimsy Little Gargoyle Trillian, 2006-2007, sweet little mousey Life Is Not Exactly As Advertised Stories She Told To the Last Drop… Murderous Thoughts of a Wife Happy New Year! On Wings Some additions to my website – have a look Come for a walk… Legacies in Paper and Ink In Time Feeling Halloweenie Could Someone Please Come and Get the Dead Hooker from my Lawn? words scattered – a poem work in progress Dead Woman’s Waltz Dark Thoughts – the Beginnings Monster Dark Thoughts – Breakfast and Act of Ommision Dark Thoughts – His Name on Every One Dark Thoughts – The Gutting Knife Dark Thoughts – Long slow ride to hatred Dark Thoughts – Please don’t ask… Dark Thoughts – Chocolate Cake and Hold the Arsenic Dark Thoughts – Getting shrunk… Dark Thoughts – Blood and Vomit Brave Little Mouse Dark Thoughts – Going, Going, Gone? Walking in Dark Thoughts