Category Archives: Art

Songs of the Stone: Edge and Point…

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Now every fifth year in the land of Erinn games, between the provinces of Meath and Connacht, were held. One year, a contestant known as Mac Duff brought with him to those games, his two fine sons. Both mighty … Continue reading →

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Sea Mist…

Posted on March 14, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …Even allowing for the earliness of the hour, there were far fewer students than he expected. By long habit his steps found a familiar corridor and the worn stone rang underfoot. It would not harm to hazard it. How … Continue reading →

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Songs of the Stone: Talon and Beak…

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …Now, one day the Leinster men were gathering together on their Game-Plain in order to take sport. “Those ravens are making a terrible cackle over there,” said one. “They have been cawing at each other like that for a … Continue reading →

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Songs of the Stone: Bristle and Grunt…

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Sue Vincent

  * Said Keiron-the-Holy to the Ogham Stone of Fergus… “A question, O Fergus Mc Roy, what was the cause of, ‘The Ulster Raid’. Some say it was the curse of two friends deprived of their friendship by the wiles … Continue reading →

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Wolf…

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …I followed Kraas’s footfalls as she walked towards the stone. Just then the moon appeared in the sky overhead and shone its half light directly onto the figure before us. Out shot a scrawny claw which grasped and held … Continue reading →

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King Vortigern’s Tower…

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* “…Before Merlin was a soothsayer he was a miraculous child who solved the mystery of Vortigern’s Tower.” “What mystery was that?” “Every time the tower was raised by Vortigern’s men the hill upon which it was built shook and … Continue reading →

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Under the rainbow

Posted on March 2, 2020 by Sue Vincent

While her dad and I worked in the garden, fixing the wind-battered shed, Hollie sat at my desk, watching the fish in the aquarium and drawing me a picture. We had just been looking at some photos of her father … Continue reading →

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Incipit…

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …‘To bring something back into the world that was lost,’ she had said as a prelude to adventure. ‘Kraas’ “We’ll be in touch,” she had said, before drifting into the twilight at adventure’s end… That was three months ago. … Continue reading →

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Lion and Hare…

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Lion lived in the forest. Lion was invincible and the sole champion of the forest. Whatever other creatures lived in the forest, Lion, killed and ate. * The animals of the forest came together and drew up a petition … Continue reading →

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Mother of all Living…

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* The Spirit planted a garden on its holy mountain in the east. It was sown with trees whose fruits were blazing jewels: diamond, sapphire, and agate, emerald, sardonyx and cornelian, opal, beryl, and topaz, malachite, garnet and amethyst. * … Continue reading →

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