Category Archives: Books

Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore – Buy a Book for Christmas – #Short Stories Mary Smith, Annika Perry and Hugh W. Roberts

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Smargasbord: Time for another selection of books that I am sure will make perfect gifts for your family and friends. The first short story collection is one that I can recommend as I read and reviewed last year. … Continue reading →

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Overkill Hill… Stuart France

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Never look back! It is good advice, unfortunately, in story-telling this advice, when given, is never adhered to. Orpheus…Lot…Dr Faustus… They are all concerned with Soul. The Soul that turns to look back is caught in time. It may … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Karen Hugg ~ How My Cat Died, Was Revived, and Shook My World

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Have you ever been so shaken by an experience that you had to write about it? That happened to me a year ago with my cat. She’s now fourteen-years-old but we got her as a stray in 2004. My dog … Continue reading →

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Glimpsing Gargantua’s Garden… Stuart France

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* ‘Fractals and Flowers’… * * ‘Platform over Precipice’… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Crocodile Man ~ Stuart France

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Crocodile Man was married to Whistle Duck and they had two daughters… “We’ll have fish tomorrow night,” said Crocodile Man, “I’ll go out early in my bark canoe.” So next morning Crocodile Man set off, and his two daughters … Continue reading →

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Wandering Stone…? Stuart France

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Sue Vincent

‘…All the henge stones…’ ‘…were thought to be alive…’ Continue reading at Stuart France

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Lair of the Black Shade…

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* …A flutter of recognition flicked across his gaze. “What is it?” Asked Wen, her icy tone slicing through the summer haze like a frosty stare. “There’s an old lay, I can’t quite remember how it goes…” “Try!” * * … Continue reading →

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How do you read?

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Sue Vincent

As I scrolled down the page I became conscious that I was doing exactly the thing I was researching. My ‘normal’ concentration and attention to words, born of my lifelong love for seeing them unfold on paper, was wandering off … Continue reading →

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The Templar Church

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Earlier this year, on a research mission, we took a trip to London, visiting the British Museum to learn more about the ancient Sumerian civilisation that will form the backdrop to the 2019 Silent Eye’s Annual Workshop, Lord of the … Continue reading →

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All about the Pear Tree…

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* …One of the things they taught me at High Furrow was that love has gone out of fashion. ‘Love, is passé,’ they said. In fact, so outmoded a concept was love that the people there could not even bring … Continue reading →

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