Category Archives: Books

The Great Mystery… from Stuart France

* Approach to the mysterium is silent, solitary and free from all self-seeking. * It is silent because in comparison with the mysterium all speech is feeble and imperfect. * It is solitary because the mysterium draws closer to us … Continue reading

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Brain Fog -#writephoto – Stuart France

* Months it has taken. Months of meticulous research… Meetings in the darkest of disreputable corners where conspiracies are born and take fevered flight across stormy nights. All roads lead to the lair of the Black Beast. That fell apparition … Continue reading

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Smorgasbord Christmas Party – Short Story – Grace by Sally Cronin and a Christmas Gift!

It was Grace’s fifth birthday and the staff at the council run orphanage had made sure that there was an iced cake for tea and some small wrapped presents beside the plastic yellow plate. The children sat at tables for … Continue reading

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Looking for the Light Grove… Stuart France

* The Light Grove starts… …Where the Dark Grove ends. ** Stuart France

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Dare you enter the weird world of Don and Wen? Kindle Offer

It is not your normal fiction. It was never supposed to be. It breaks so many of the rules of fiction writing that no publisher with his eye on the popular bestseller list would touch it with a bargepole. It … Continue reading

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Guest authors: Robbie and Michael Cheadle – Sir Chocolate

I love this idea from Robbie and Michael Cheadle. When my own sons were younger, we spent many happy hours baking and creating things with sugarpaste in the kitchen…and just as many hours snuggled up with books. The most exciting … Continue reading

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Into the Hill… Stuart France

* …And the Wood-Stone started to glow, White it was… * * And I felt an impetus to take flight, but only as far as the end of the passage… * * Which is just as well, otherwise, I would … Continue reading

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Guest Author: Cynthia A. Morgan – A gentle message

Best Seller! Must Read! Page-turner! Wait? How does one define precisely what these are when, to coin the over-utilized phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder”?  What makes a book something you cannot put down; what compels readers … Continue reading

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Inner Sanctum… Stuart France

* Further vindication of our unscheduled return was granted upon re-entering the chamber. The free standing stone and the facing stone, which were separated by space and shadow, were both now holding the light. The light that some say would … Continue reading

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Verily, verily… Stuart France

* The thing is… It is impossible to ‘do’ such sites in one visit. In fact, it is not possible to ‘do’ such sites at all. If anything, they ‘do’ you, if you allow them. As we were about to … Continue reading

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