Now Sheba, the beloved of the Sphinx, had catalogued and experimented with all the strange plants, berries, fruits, saps, leaves, barks, minerals, and essences that they had once, not long, collected on their travels. She had distilled and extracted, separated, and fractioned, boiled and sieved, added and subtracted all the strange participant bits of theContinueContinue reading “Splitting the Mota”
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Looking Back Over My Shoulder
Look, said the Raggedy Man. Looking back over my shoulder, I can see in your eye. I see, like bricks in a wall, the images of times that are me, bits me, like parts or pages in a book took out, or eggs in a basket fall out, or jars on a kitchen shelf slipContinueContinue reading “Looking Back Over My Shoulder”
The Raggedy Man
Beneath the tree, adjacent to the flowing of water, the Darkest Knight had awoken refreshed. The Darkest Knight, refreshed. Are you ready to return to the Hostel for the Homeless, where you must absorb all the terrors and worries of those who pass? Asked the Sphinx. The Sphinx I am ready, my slate is wipedContinueContinue reading “The Raggedy Man”
The Wisdom of Smaller Creatures
It is a fact, related the Wandering Rabbit, that in this world, the wisest creatures available to inquiry are small and often of a timid inclination. Young mice, for instance, are taught philosophy and the art of cuisine from a tender age. It is also well known that rabbits invented football, billiards, skiing, bridge, cheeseContinueContinue reading “The Wisdom of Smaller Creatures”
The Ancestral Pile
When I was a young Darkest Child, my home, a chateau, seemed much undone by siege and siege engine. The stone was fall all about in great heaps and only some few chambers and dungeons kept the cold and wind in their place. The reason, this is because my parent and mother were very keenContinueContinue reading “The Ancestral Pile”
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”
Stony Ground
Sphinx came to Sheba upon a flying carpet. Where shall we travel more quick as well, she said. It is of no use to me today, said Sheba, as I needs must scour the ground, as we go to discover those herbs which might hide there. I shall carry these carpets for use at aContinueContinue reading “Stony Ground”
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 Shoulder of the Hill of a Woman and The Wasteland
Then, that is what happened next, most exciting. The Blue Knights made their thanks and tributes to the Sun, the Wind and the Ice. Of all mostly to the Penguins and their Regal Empress, who had saved the world. Hurrah! Soon, when they had gone, the Blue Knights, with Sheba and the Sphinx, travelled toContinueContinue reading “The Shoulder of the Hill of a Woman and The Wasteland”
Upon the Hip of the Hill of a Woman
High up the Hip they stood, two Blue Knights, The Sphinx and Sheba. The Hip of the Hill of a Woman Look, said the Sphinx, I can feel it with my eyes and heart and bones and blood, the incessant creeping of the darkness. Come in here to crush all our rights and freedoms, withContinueContinue reading “Upon the Hip of the Hill of a Woman”
The Guardians of the Cave 