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Thu, Nov 29 2012 07:07:19

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The Rise and Fall of Fathom Butterfly: Part 1

Selections from Fathom Butterfly's "Memoir in Tweets" selected for the Twitter fiction Festival.

  1. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    I was famous once—but now few know me.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:01:24
  2. I was plastered across newsstands. In England I sold as many mags & rags as L.Taylor or B.Bardot. twitpic.com/bh3aqh
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
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    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:02:00
  3. I was a beauty queen, showgirl, B-movie star & w/a little peccadillo almost brought down the Prime Minister. twitpic.com/bh3fly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
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    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:04:00
  4. When England threw me to the dogs—my American adventures began. twitpic.com/bh3gff
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
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    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:06:01
  5. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    I’d been out of the public eye for ages until @joshgosfield tracked me down.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:08:00
  6. Josh showed up at my home w/a big box of me—every film poster, tabloid & advert of my life. twitpic.com/bh3bhb
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
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    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:10:01
  7. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    Josh is the sort of loony obsessive with a thing for the past. He knows more about my life than I do.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:12:00
  8. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    When Josh said, “Write your story.” I said, “Who’d give a monkey’s about my life?”
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:14:00
  9. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    He said, “You’ve lived an extraordinary life with the kinds of adventures people don't have anymore.”
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:16:00
  10. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    Josh also said, “Maybe some book publisher will pay you for it.”
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:17:00
  11. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    When I took ill & needed the money, I stopped saying no.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:19:00
  12. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    Most write their memoirs the proper way—in paragraphs and pages.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:21:55
  13. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    But Josh said “You’re too sick & don't have enough time. Talk to me & I’ll Tweet it into the phone.”
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:23:00
  14. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    Not at all sure what Tweeting is—but I’ll give it a bash.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:24:00
  15. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    I’ll prattle from my bed & Josh will pick out the good parts & peck them into his phone.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:25:01
  16. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    I was born in '40. The Blitz came. The bombs fell. Parents were told. “Ship your children out of London!”
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:27:01
  17. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    My Mum dropped me at the vicarage in Eversham w/Rev.Cox, wife Dora & a dozen other young cast offs.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:29:01
  18. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    Deprivation? We had bugger all. But we didn't even know what we missed.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:30:00
  19. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    When the air raid sirens sounded the Buzz Bombs would be dropping & we dove into the shelters.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:32:01
  20. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    Mr. Graves from the pub grumbled, “If your name’s on it you'll get it wherever you are!”
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:33:00
  21. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    I slept in The Vicar’s wife’s bed. One night a terrific BOOM woke us all.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:35:01
  22. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    We looked out the hole where a window had been. Fireballs shot out of the munitions plant.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:36:01
  23. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    Then…VE Day! Church bells rang! Lights went back on! End of the bloody war!
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:38:01
  24. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    Streets filled w/mad celebration & out came all the food that'd been hoarded during wartime.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:40:01
  25. FathomButterfly
    Fathom Butterfly@FathomButterfly
    We stuffed ourselves with biscuits, sweets, canned peaches, cocoa, jellies & cakes.
    Wed, Nov 28 2012 14:41:00

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