Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Bridging the Gap… Stuart France

We commence with a square plot of green grass which we designate ‘Earth’. * We desire to stretch our boundaries and expand. This desire seems to manifest most at the pointed corners of our square plot of land. * From … Continue reading

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Pieces of Eight … Stuart France

* Eight can be interpreted as a resonance of unitary division. Cell mitosis, whereby one cell divides and becomes two, is an eight stage process. * Source: Stuart France

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Nine less One… Stuart France

* The notion of a simultaneous end and beginning is an important one in nature. It is the principle that underlies periodicity in the cycles of life and their renewal. It is the primary principle of eight-ness. * Source: Stuart … Continue reading

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A Woman of Power and Substance by Steve Tanham

It is the winter of 1584. The well-dressed woman watches as her fourth husband storms out of the dining hall at their present home, Tutbury Castle, in Staffordshire. In the corner of the room sits a younger woman, now smiling … Continue reading

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Twisted history…

I enjoy research. For a writer, this is obviously a good thing. I love following an obscure reference to its source or delving into the past in search of what, for want of a better word, could be called ‘the … Continue reading

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The Deadly Edge of Love (part 2) – Steve Tanham

(Continued from Part One of The Deadly Edge of Love) It’s the morning of 18th November, 1558. Robert Dudley is witnessing a miracle.In her dying months, Queen Mary, Elizabeth’s half-sister, and daughter of Henry and Catherine of Aragon, has restored … Continue reading

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Sparks of light…

Bonfire night. In Britain, it is celebrated on November 5th every year to commemorate the death of Guy Fawkes. He was the conspirator charged with lighting the fuse on the thirty-six barrels of gunpowder secreted in a cellar beneath the … Continue reading

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The Deadly Edge of Love (part 1) – The Silent Eye

They were both young, though he was a year older; beyond childhood but not yet adults, not in the way that their lives would soon force them to be… They had been together since their early years, and what they … Continue reading

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Maiden Mother Crone, Part 8 – Farewell by Helen Jones

Reblogged from Journey to Ambeth: So this was it. The final stop on my weekend with the Silent Eye, not far from where it had begun for me, two days earlier. We were very close to Aberdeen airport, but, other … Continue reading

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Clues…  Stuart France

ALL SAINTS Where earth and time And heavens meet, Look for dragons’ soaring might, To seek the circle’s treasure trove, And solve The Riddles of the Night. Source: Clues… | Stuart France

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