When they arrived at 4, Rutherford Close, the woman with the goat used the short end of her stick to ring the bell, the stick having been used, disappeared from the story. The goat wondered if it would be next. Sheba, The Sphinx and the woman with the goat waited patiently on the path fromContinueContinue reading “Rutherford Close”
Category Archives: Sphinx
War Zone
Big grey or light green metal tanks covered with guns sticking out went rolling back and forth, rolling tracks making patterns in the broken things, across somebody’s garden and through the fence and over the car and breaking the lamppost. Mud poured out of them. All the vegetables were mushed up with mud and couldContinueContinue reading “War Zone”
The Bright Hammer
When it was there, by the up of rocks, a rope was let down by rope, drifting about, coiling, and the Sphinx made a knot around and around the Bright Hammer by teeth and claw. When they pulled the rope, it went straighter, moves up and down, because it was heavy, still is. Then, heaveContinueContinue reading “The Bright Hammer”
Hammer at Sea
The sea was wet, wet, wet, and moved like a field of grass in the wind. The Sphinx sank like a stone Sphinx to the seabed where was encountered a Sea Cucumber. Are you animal, vegetable, or mineral? The Sphinx asked. I am a Sea Cucumber, certainly not a mineral anyway. I give up, andContinueContinue reading “Hammer at Sea”
Hammer in the Jungle
In the jungle, leaves, leaves, leaves and stays. They traveled slowly, ducking and diving, holding branches back for the one who came after, oh thank you. Ouch, you missed that one, sorry. Have you found a hammer yet? No, Sphinx going in front, no, but I’ve found a Shield Bug on a leaf. No, youContinueContinue reading “Hammer in the Jungle”
Hammer in the Grass
They searched low through the high grass, they searched in the yellow grass, and when it moved it could not stay still. It looked like water. The grass was high, they parted the grass, look. Is it there in the grass? No, only a snake, I’ve found a snake, called the Sphinx. Ask the snake.ContinueContinue reading “Hammer in the Grass”
The Hardest Place
When I was young and the world was remaining a mumbling ball of flaming rock and the people and creatures of it were still a twinkle in the eye of the tempest, I believed that the apparent ordered chaos of entropy was the only direction of travel. A rock must fall and a flame mustContinueContinue reading “The Hardest Place”
The Fire Sheep
The Oracles wandered off carrying the time incinerator, checking its vitals from moment to moment as they walked or shuffled along. A sheep, with flames running constantly along its back, walked up and stood casually looking at the Sphinx. You are on fire, said the Sphinx quietly, not speaking too loud so as to notContinueContinue reading “The Fire Sheep”
Sheba and the Pillars
So and so, Sheba was made her hair intertwining the pillars together and apart together and apart such that the stone, stacked up with mortar, could try to withstand and stand and stay. But in all the enchantment that remained in the stones, as standing together, never but never was a thought to guard againstContinueContinue reading “Sheba and the Pillars”
At The Temple
It was all quiet on the wide grey temple steps when they reached into the darkness of the temple. If they had arrived, was no voice only silence, to tell the story of forever, in the solidity of the high temple roof and its support pillars. They played their feet about the worn away areasContinueContinue reading “At The Temple”
The Guardians of the Cave 