HeyJaredTerri Lewis - Words that Dance
Musings on my careers in dance and writing, with an occasional foray into travel, architecture, history, or dogs
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Horses & Chain Mail (opens the original)
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The famous “tapestry” (not woven, embroidered), which depicts the conquest that changed England forever, has gone home for a visit. This work of art is like a comic book, scenes telling a linear story: In 1066, the French Norman William, The Conquerer - you can guess who won - sailed to England to seize the crown he thought belonged to him. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1ujR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubsta
My Life in Bylines (opens the original)
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Since 2016 I have occasionally reviewed for the Washington Independent Review of Books, an always interesting website. I recently realized my bylines limn the trajectory of my writing career. March 2016. Although Terri Lewis lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and two dogs, she loves visiting West Virginia for the mountains, trees, and streams. Not to forget the deer and the whistle pigs. She just completed a novel and is searching for an agent. I no longer remember which novel, but I cert
Technological Idiocy (opens the original)
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I decided to submit to a prize for a short story collection a week before the deadline. The manuscript had been in a drawer for a while and needed real editing, but fine, I could do it. The first day, I discovered the characters had outgrown their original names and turned stale in my imagination. New names would make them more malleable and bring them back to life.Maintaining the syllable count so as not to disturb established sentence rhythms, Felipe became Mateo, and Flavia, Lillian. For Sama
Looking at the dead... (opens the original)
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I’m historical-curious, i.e. I read about almost any era: cave art to elephants in the Punic wars to artifacts recovered from shipwrecks. Lately I was reading an article about a CT scan done on an Egyptian Mummy. Scientists (and the machine) were able to create a virtual autopsy using 320 cross-section images. From the images, they 3-D printed the spine and skull. Haunting to look at, to realize a real person was under this shell of wood and wrappings. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img
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