The Lost One

These are my stories, said the Sphinx to the Blue and Gold Knights, there are more narrative threads upon which you may wish to pull, but I leave that to your judgement as you have been so patient and listened so faithfully to my song. The Blue and Gold Knights awoke as if from aContinue reading "The Lost One"

The Sphinx’s Eyes

The Sphinx now, here we see her, is come away another world, what is it? Another world and coming hence towards, to us, by us, she sees so many. The Sphinx’s eye, to discern for another place, another level, still here, but not now, sees so many things. Sometimes she must blink. To believe. ToContinue reading "The Sphinx’s Eyes"

Sphinx in the South: Interview with a Penguin

Looking South now, Southern Cross, anti-clockwise water, oceans, isolate. The Sphinx sought the seat of power in that place. So, said the Sphinx, you are the head Penguin around here. I prefer Empress, said the Penguin. Please address me as Your Majesty. No problem, Your Majesty. I come to you from a land mired inContinue reading "Sphinx in the South: Interview with a Penguin"

Sphinx in the North

The Sphinx turned her face to the cold North and was in conversation with the Ice that lay there in mountains and floating plains. Well, oh Great Ice place, I expect you have heard from the Sun and the West Wind that I come as a supplicant, asking favour. The Ice was silent and flatContinue reading "Sphinx in the North"

Sphinx in the West

Forwards and forwards now to the West, Westwards, Westerly. To the left looking North, to the right looking South. The Sphinx travelled. Maybe not, maybe the Sphinx just faced to the West, face to the wind. To the West, where the wind comes out the sky, where the wind comes come down to bend theContinue reading "Sphinx in the West"

Sphinx In The East

Now and now, what a time it was, it was the time when all the knights of the world came together beneath the great banner of the Sphinx. To push and push away the ruination of that nation in peril. They pushed and stood as firm as can be, but many were lost, so thatContinue reading "Sphinx In The East"

The Perfect Circle

In a small town not far from here, in a small house with a garden, lived a woman and her three children. In spring she planted vegetables and tended her fruit bushes and waited and watched for her garden to begin to help feed her children. As soon as the elderflowers were in bloom, sheContinue reading "The Perfect Circle"

The Sphinx Looks Out

When the sphinx woke once more, she lay in a darkening cell. Stone by stone, mortar by mortar, her eyes raised the walls to the blackened timbers of the ceiling far above. A short and narrow window with not shutter, nor bar, made the light just a memory around the cell, its dark corners allContinue reading "The Sphinx Looks Out"