McLAIN WARD hopped off the jet from humid Hong Kong, where he helped the United States Equestrian Team secure an Olympic gold medal, his second career team gold, and hopped onto Phillipa, the statuesque chestnut mare he rode to an unremarkable 33rd-place finish in a $7,500 Open Jumper event Tuesday afternoon under summer postcard conditions at the Hampton Classic.
We tramped up a dusty road, past postcard sellers, under the midday sun, until we reached the Corinth archaeological site — a cream-colored building with a green door, where, we were told, we should take our artifact.
While both the idea and the app interface are simple, SwingVine gallery does have its appeal, as it's pretty hard to resist wanting to see whatever photo postcard is under wraps.
They tinted the windows, added an awning made of striped fabric found in the Montmartre market, built flower pots to attach under the windows, and bought a postcard stand that they filled with their collection of postcards.
On Friday, the police had placed postcards under the glass tabletops at Tatiana Grill, offering a $1,000 reward for information about anyone carrying an unlicensed handgun.
And there was the postcard spring moment: a top prospect under a palm tree, unleashing a lively fastball to jolt the sleepy morning.
In summer it hosts fairs, picnics, concerts, weddings and church suppers; this week, under a blanket of snow, it looks like a postcard.
For postcard views, ask for one of the tables under the arched windows overlooking the iconic "Public Market" sign.
Viktor is a postcard from Rome, a city seen as sexist, venal, and slowly suffocating under the silt of history.
Flash fiction, which is defined as being a story under 1,000 words, goes by the names of "short shorts," "miniatures," "sudden fiction" and "postcard fiction," among many others.
