Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Dancing with the ghost in the machine ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

If you’ve ever been involved with anything of an ‘amateur dramatic’ nature, you will know that moment: the protagonist, hated until the final few moments (when the greater picture is revealed) shuffles off, in rags, to his doom; and the … Continue reading →

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Joining the dots…

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The waiting room was busy and the woman beside me said so… it was the opening gambit of one of those brief and revealing conversations that happen so often, where stranger speaks to stranger and they part as friends who … Continue reading →

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To have and to hold…

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Sue Vincent

From behind the curtain I am watching the birds in the garden. I am waiting for the hawthorns to grow tall and become a haven for feathered things. They are, for the moment, little more than bushes, but even so, … Continue reading →

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The What of Life (2) ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Sue Vincent

I want to like you, she thought, loudly. Please don’t spoil it by picking on science in a stupid, fluffy way… but don’t stop challenging, either… find the villains… She listened, intently, as he talked about the need to ‘see’ … Continue reading →

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On the doorstep…

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Have you ever laid in the dew damp grass of morning and watched the petals of a daisy unfold, purest white, lifting its heart to the sun? Or seen a newborn creature take its first breath, opening its eyes on … Continue reading →

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…and Red-Fox. ~ Stuart France

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* …In another part of the meadow Red-Fox was hunting mice for breakfast. He saw one and jumped on him with with all four feet but the little fellow got away. In his disappointment Red-Fox heard a distant call, “Bring … Continue reading →

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City rhythm…?

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Sue Vincent

I couldn’t remember the last time I had walked so far on urban pavements. I generally avoid going into town with all the dedication I would show to avoiding, say, a dinner invitation from a ravenous vampire…and for much the … Continue reading →

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…Buffalo… Stuart France

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* …Buffalo trampled the grass and tore up the earth with his front hoofs but when he looked for Field-Mouse he was nowhere to be found. ‘That’s put an end to him,’ thought Buffalo. Just then he felt a scratching … Continue reading →

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The What of Life (1) ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Sue Vincent

She was sitting in the front row – the car had mysteriously failed to start for the first five minutes of the would-be journey, as though projecting her future to this point with a mechanical will of its own. This … Continue reading →

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Into the Hill… Stuart France

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* …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… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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