Category Archives: Books

Beyond the Veil… #bookextract

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Sue Vincent

“Heilyn’s mother, for instance, is no Titania. By human standards she can be cruel and heartless and her morals non-existent. You may not judge by the accepted code of our world. Faery is not immoral, but amoral in our terms. … Continue reading →

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Cool of Day…

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …Abadel’s soul escaped from his body: it flew about the scene of slaughter and eventually settled on the tree of life, where it assumed the form of a serpent and coiled itself about the trunk. * Abadel’s blood lay … Continue reading →

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Sapphire and Topaz…

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Abadam and his brother Abadel contended for the favour of Yva… * Abadam offered her sapphire while Abadel offered topaz. Yva was pleased with Abadel and she lay with him. Continue reading at France and Vincent

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The Green Harper…

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* ‘…Peedy Weedy…Pally Ludy… Lady Whistle… Lody Wassel and Great Big Hodyman Dod…’ -Traditional Toe Counting Rhyme * …Wen becomes pensive for awhile, ‘we need to go to Cerne Abbas…’ ‘Father Corn…?’ ‘Possibly…and then there’s the Long Man of Wilmington…whose … Continue reading →

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George and the Dragon

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Sue Vincent

One from the archives…what really happened when George met the dragon… “Nah, sithee,” said Granny, “Just set thee dahn ‘ere, An’ I’ll tell thee a tale old and true, Of ‘ow good Saint George slew a dragon one day An’ … Continue reading →

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Telling Stones…

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …Gazing into the depths of the reflection the moving torches seemed to open the gates of vision and she saw herself in an Other-Where… Dressed in strange garb, looking across time with other eyes, watching herself made her feel … Continue reading →

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Sentinel Stones…

Posted on May 16, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …But she knew. She had seen it when the vision took her there… Following the spirit path on the hawk’s wings… They marked her when they had realised that she knew… She would bear no children now, save at … Continue reading →

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Chasing the Shaman…

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It feels rather odd, being in a book. Not as one half of that semi-fictional pair, ‘Don and Wen’, but as yourself… especially when it is written by someone else. But it does show how much our human stories intertwine, … Continue reading →

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What, no boots! …

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* ‘…all the great thinkers recognise the importance of rational thought and also the importance of getting beyond the rational and that’s where the myths and fairy stories come in… Plato spends the greater part of his master work ‘The … Continue reading →

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Pieces of Nietzsche by Stuart France

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* NEW EUROPEANS   The desire for Truth. That ‘temptress to risk’. The veracity which all ‘lovers of wisdom’ revere. * Continue reading at France & Vincent

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