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The Holey Hat

The Blue Knights (Woman and Man) settled their Baby Knight (Baby) with its Grand Parent Knights, then set in a Nor Nor Nor Nor Easterly direction, as was their designation and slice of the compass. One hundred days passed straight along, at least time enough, till they rested their horses to make good their pavilionContinueContinue reading “The Holey Hat”

The Personal Trainer’s Tale

I became or was made redundant. I had neither purpose nor direction. Not up nor down, nor left nor right. My only possessions, a whip and a wooden chair, which happened to be so light that one might pick it up and brandish it with one hand, and a bicycle that went nowhere. The whipContinueContinue reading “The Personal Trainer’s Tale”

Rutherford Close

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”

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”

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”

Sphinx in the Underworld

Then, and then the Sphinx took leave of all the world of living and made her way deep through the hidden cave to the river Styx. She must not pay as she has no soul, of an elemental being made. Hello, can you take me across the river please. You must pay me, the boatman,ContinueContinue reading “Sphinx in the Underworld”