Tag Archives: fantasy

Culleen Callawe’en and the Skraeling Woods from My Frilly Freudian Slip #writephoto

When magic first rose clean and pure in the north, the people of the other directions felt their own magic was but cheap trickery. Buffoonery, nostrums, and foolishness. Gestures and puffs of smoke. Nothing real, only conjured. For, in the … Continue reading

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Thursday photo prompt – Secrets #writephoto

 Use the image below to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT)  Wednesday 16th November and link back to this post with a pingback. Please make sure that … Continue reading

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Thursday photo prompt – Creature #writephoto

As this week will take us to Halloween, I’ve chosen a genuinely spooky photograph. This black creature with glowing eyes was captured on  camera when we visited an ancient mine a few days ago… Use the image to create a … Continue reading

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“I think therefore…“

From the archives 2014: The movement of the robotic face of the Geminoid DK robot is uncanny. It is almost… but not quite… perfect and has a vaguely disquieting effect, looking remarkably like Henrik Schärfe, who was part of its … Continue reading

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Thursday photo prompt – Violet sky #writephoto

Use the image to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT)  Wednesday 26th October and link back to this post with a pingback. Please make sure that the … Continue reading

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#writephoto – Under The Moon by Helen Jones

  ‘All night long make tropic love, the next day sit in hot sun and cool off.’ She smiled, leaning back in her sun lounger, sipping rum and coca-cola, just like the song crackling from the old radio. Putting her … Continue reading

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Thursday photo prompt- Moonlit #writephoto

Use the image to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT)  Wednesday 20th October and link back to this post with a pingback. Please make sure that the … Continue reading

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The importance of getting home under your own steam from Tallis Steelyard

Reblogged from Tallis Steelyard: First you must remember it had been a very hot day. After all it was the height of summer and about the only thing moving in Port Naain was the tide coming up the estuary and … Continue reading

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Photo prompt round-up – Lights #writephoto

The photograph for this week’s prompt was taken one night when I woke to that particular silence and untimely light that tells you it is snowing. Throwing on coat and boots, I couldn’t resist going out to play as the … Continue reading

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The Ballad of Stagbold Keep from Tallis Steelyard #shortstory

Reblogged from the pen of the inimitable Tallis Steelyard another story from Port Naain… Initially, I confess, I had intended to write this as verse and then find some poor and credulous musician to supply music. But frankly the story … Continue reading

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