TheSpinstress
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The Best Bollywood Dance Workout Channels
It's New Year and I know I'm not the only one whose waistband is protesting. Getting back into a workout routine after the holidays can be tough. It can be especially tough if, like me, you really don't like exercise. I don't care what the sporty types say: there's no way it's addictive, or 'just becomes a habit'. I've been on a lifelong mission to find an exercise that doesn't bore me to tears and require a day's worth of willpower to get through.
By TheSpinstress2 years ago in Longevity
Rotten Cotton: Forced Labour in Turkmenistan
What's your t-shirt made of? Or, let's get real (it is January), what is your hoodie-and-sweatpants combo made of? The chance are that the clothes you're wearing are at least partly cotton. It's a fabric that human beings have been using for over 6000 years, with a host of benefits - it's easy to wash, absorbent and breathable.
By TheSpinstress2 years ago in Styled
The Unsilent Ring
The diamond ring sang out from the window display. Nestled in a black velvet tray, it conjured images of Alnilam, shining the brightest in Orion’s belt. Elizabeth’s hands pressed themselves against the chilled glass. The ring was audible, if she strained just right; a whirring, humming murmur, just on the edge of hearing. Her feet walked themselves towards the battered door.
By TheSpinstress3 years ago in Fiction
Living Things
In her heart of hearts, Soniya was against the tunnel. When she had first moved in with Andromeda, she had been higher than the lights to share a LiveSpace. She had been a solitary for a long time, and the company of Marie, her Artificial Sociable Simulated Interlocuter System and Temporator, was starting to drag. Marie was the latest model, with a fully upgraded games system, but she was still not quite...something.
By TheSpinstress3 years ago in Fiction
5 of Juhi Chawla's Best Comedy Performances
Although Juhi Chawla has proven her versatility time and again with both romantic and tragic roles, it's probably her comic timing that has received the most praise over the years. Salman Khan recently claimed she has "better comic timing than Charlie Chaplin"!
By TheSpinstress3 years ago in Geeks
The Long March Home
Torches roar. I mean, the old style, pitchfork-and-mob torches. Tiki torches? I had never once thought about them until December 31st, 2018, but they roar. When you light them. They roar like the wind can roar in the Hebridean winter, for a moment. No, they roar like the crash of the tumultuous sea against the side of a stricken boat.
By TheSpinstress3 years ago in Fiction
Dream Achievement Support Assistant
If I tell you my job title, you'll smile politely. You might think 'oh well, at least I know what that is'; you'll think you know what I do. You're probably right about some of my daily tasks. I do drill irregular verbs and explain the difference between affect and effect and make red marks on essays.
By TheSpinstress3 years ago in Education
The Flood
The thing about living in see-through housing is that you can see everything. When the flood had come, Julia and her family had sat tight in the dark centre of their Ugloo. Their ASSIST had conveyed messages from the supervising body. Julia had jumped out of her skin the first time it had spoken without being spoken to.
By TheSpinstress3 years ago in Fiction
Phase Four
Maureen peered out from behind her mother’s long skirt. Everything here was alien; all the girls running around wore the same white blouse and bottle-green skirt she had on, the same knee-high socks, but they shouted and screeched like she never did. She watched one of them pull another’s long, dangling plait.
By TheSpinstress3 years ago in Fiction
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