Tag: Tardi Mack

Mongrel: 46, 47 and 48

Last three chapters. But not really THE END.

It was hard to figure out the cut-off point between Mongrel and Meld. In a way, the whole of Mongrel is Tardi’s backstory and set-up for his role in Meld.

I felt that, with at least the main character a familiar person, we might all be able to better understand the new scenario. Experience it through his senses, as it were. It was hard to write and it’ll be hard to understand. But I hope you’ll find it intriguing.

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I’ve seen most snakes in the wild, but never a death adder. Like most bush-walking Australians I was always on the look out for them. Very scary. I’ve known several people who thought they killed one, only for the animal to turn out to be a blue-tongue skink.

Image from https://wildlifeqld.com.au/common-death-adder/ Check out this link for all the variety of colors of death adders.

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Mongrel, 44 & 45

Now you get to witness the difficulties I have finishing. I never have been able to end a story naturally, always have to study how it’s done. Jeff Vandemeer’s Wonderbook has helped me numerous times.

In Mongrel I ran up to the end a couple of times and each time wrote yet another chapter or part and in the end … well you’ll read about the end in the goodness of time.

Now imagine this forest but thicker, with more trees …

Image by Casuarina grove (Marathi- सुरू वन) (3228093703).jpg

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Mongrel, 40 & 41

The rabbit-hole, when asked for an image of silver water pouring, coughed out this illustration for an article on colloidal silver. Then of course it had to be screen-shotted, resized and otherwise groomed to take its place in this story. In the process I lost the name of the website-of-origin, my apologies. Let me know if you recognize it as yours and I shall reference you.

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Mongrel, 38 & 39

Various species of Leptospermum, or Teatree, an Australian native genus have been made into balms and other medicinal products for thousands of years. Here the flower and fruit of the Pink Teatree (Leptospermum squarrosum)

By JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6655154

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Mongrel, 36

I’m pretty happy with this image, another cut from a ceramic puzzle I once made. The original 30 centimeter tile broke across during storage, a risk associated with green-ware. IE not yet kilned. I took the pieces home over the Christmas holidays to decide what I was going to do with it.

Ended up breaking them into 13 pieces to try a different experiment on each piece. In this photo are four of the pieces representing a creek. As well as incising them, and painting them with ceramic slips, I searched one of the local bottle dumps and found fragments of old blue and old white glass to crush. Kilning the glassy fragments made the foamy creek water featured on these pieces. Below them the pieces that were inscribed with creek bank vegetation and fungi.

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