Tag Archives: standing stone

#writephoto – The Spring by Helen Jones

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another lovely #writephoto prompt, courtesy of Sue Vincent. Here’s my response to this week’s image: Squat and heavy, the stone sat next to the little spring, which was all boxed in and bricked … Continue reading

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Looking for the Light Grove… Stuart France

* The Light Grove starts… …Where the Dark Grove ends. ** Stuart France

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Renewal – Stuart France

* …Of the Light. Stuart France

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Dare you enter the weird world of Don and Wen? Kindle Offer

It is not your normal fiction. It was never supposed to be. It breaks so many of the rules of fiction writing that no publisher with his eye on the popular bestseller list would touch it with a bargepole. It … Continue reading

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Into the Hill… Stuart France

* …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… * * Which is just as well, otherwise, I would … Continue reading

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Inner Sanctum… Stuart France

* Further vindication of our unscheduled return was granted upon re-entering the chamber. The free standing stone and the facing stone, which were separated by space and shadow, were both now holding the light. The light that some say would … Continue reading

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Verily, verily… Stuart France

* The thing is… It is impossible to ‘do’ such sites in one visit. In fact, it is not possible to ‘do’ such sites at all. If anything, they ‘do’ you, if you allow them. As we were about to … Continue reading

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Never Go Back… Stuart France

* The first thing to remark, apart from the increased Avian Activity Quotient… Was, the difference an hour makes. * * Was it simply the movement of the sun? The progress of the day… Or had the site responded to … Continue reading

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Chanteater – Stuart France

* It was probably foolish, I know… * * But I took a liking to this ‘little lady’. * * Who, if the board is correct, could have been supporting the capstone’s weight  for over six thousand years. Continue reading … Continue reading

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Smoke – Stuart France #writephoto…

I know why we did it. Why it was suggested. It was Ned’s idea. Ned, with his ‘sacred tobacco’. Still, it could hardly have been sacred here, then… Continue reading here

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