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”
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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”
The Sphinx’s Tail and the Poison Frogs
In a month or a year they travelled and in it they discovered many new and old plants that could enhance the healing from Sheba’s medicament store. But in all that time they not found a solution to the disappearing of the Sphinx. Until the Sphinx came passing upset. One day travelling, Sheba mused, IsContinueContinue reading “The Sphinx’s Tail and the Poison Frogs”
The Deserted Dessert
Then when they had gone along, a long way, they came into a deserted desert with no. Little patches of nearly dead but grown and not. Every once in a while. Then when it was deserted, look, a small tree, old and withered, maybe a thousand years old, maybe only one thousand years old, stood,ContinueContinue reading “The Deserted Dessert”
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. ToContinueContinue 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 inContinueContinue 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 flatContinueContinue reading “Sphinx in the North”
All At Sea
When the sphinx awoke, before she had opened her eyes, she felt the wind on her face, smelt the salt in that wind and heard the water roaring around her with the influence of the wind. On a ship then, all at sea. She rose to her four feet and looked out across the waves.ContinueContinue reading “All At Sea”
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, sheContinueContinue reading “The Perfect Circle”
The Guardians of the Cave 