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Sea Mist…

* …Even allowing for the earliness of the hour, there were far fewer students than he expected. By long habit his steps found a familiar corridor and the worn stone rang underfoot. It would not harm to hazard it. How … Continue reading

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Wolf…

* …I followed Kraas’s footfalls as she walked towards the stone. Just then the moon appeared in the sky overhead and shone its half light directly onto the figure before us. Out shot a scrawny claw which grasped and held … Continue reading

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King Vortigern’s Tower…

* “…Before Merlin was a soothsayer he was a miraculous child who solved the mystery of Vortigern’s Tower.” “What mystery was that?” “Every time the tower was raised by Vortigern’s men the hill upon which it was built shook and … Continue reading

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Incipit…

* …‘To bring something back into the world that was lost,’ she had said as a prelude to adventure. ‘Kraas’ “We’ll be in touch,” she had said, before drifting into the twilight at adventure’s end… That was three months ago. … Continue reading

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Fragments of history

Over the past month or so, we have been revisiting places in my local area in preparation for the April workshop we will be running here. There are so many wonderful sites that we would love to include, but time … Continue reading

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Burn, Burn, Burn…

* Man was always chasing Hare but Hare was usually too swift for him… * One day, by means of a fluke, Man caught Hare, “Now, I’ve got you,” said Man and he tied Hare to a tree, then he … Continue reading

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To Be…

* The Moon dies and rises to life again. Moon said to Hare, “Go to Men and tell them, ‘like as the Moon dies and again rises to life, so will you also.’” * Continue reading at France & Vincent

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All about the Pear Tree…

* …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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Sound of waves…

* After holidaying three years running at White-Lake, Mother decided it offered more congenial surroundings than sooty Colton in which to bring up a family so she put it to Father that we really ought to move there for good. … Continue reading

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Virgin of the Ridge…

* …Come together in this countryside, where so much has lately gone undone, Come armed with wisdom and intelligence, together we shall utter the words of truth, which heaven’s saints are wont to hear and they will come down amongst … Continue reading

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