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#writephoto : Waiting by Willow

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 1st February and link back to Sue Vincent’s post  here with a pingback. Please make … Continue reading

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The Moons of Mountain Ana IV… Stuart France

* With almost perfect symmetry little Josh wants to take some flowers back to Mum. *  He plucks from the two Laburnum grown together over a garden gate; harmonious estate, or the strain of embrace, stretching… to cleave ? The … Continue reading

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The Moons of Mountain Ana III… Stuart France

* Becky’s sulk face is adamant with indignation. If she only knew how perilous it is to neglect the young. * …Our roles are reversed for the tale of mum and dad and a kitchen knife, which Fiona tells in … Continue reading

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Notes on the Nature of Coyote… Stuart France

* Coyote is a Native American culture hero, buffoon, and trickster figure who mixes animal and human traits to mostly comic, often catastrophic and, sometimes, salutary effect. * The world in which Coyote moves can be conceived as a parallel … Continue reading

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Bull-Coyote II… Stuart France

* …Buffalo-Bull threw Coyote high into the air with his horns. When he came back down to earth Coyote was a Buffalo-Bull. Bull-Coyote wandered off into another field eating grass to his heart’s content and satisfying his hunger. Just then, … Continue reading

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Lantern of the Gods… Stuart France #writephoto

* Maggot always gets his man… Wherever they go. However far they flee. However cunningly they hide… * Maggot enters The Old George: legendary menagerie of care-worn dreamers. This evening’s vibrantly clad gathering part to allow him to the bar. … Continue reading

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An Imperious Impulse IV… Stuart France

* …When Death Spirit heard of Coyote’s folly he was deeply angered. He immediately appeared to Coyote who was alone on the prairie howling into the dust. “You…you…you… congenital transgressor!” spat Death Spirit in his rage, “I told you not … Continue reading

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 Lantern – Michael at Morpeth Road #writephoto

Aunt Betty kept it burning. For years after the war had ended she kept the lamp lit in hope she said, always in hope. The long years of war had ended. For Aunt Betty those were years of agony, of … Continue reading

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Kingfisher’s Way… Stuart France

* One time when there was no food at Coyote’s Lodge he went round to Kingfisher’s. “I’m really hungry,” said Coyote, “what is there to eat here?” Kingfisher did not like Coyote’s way with words but he sent his son … Continue reading

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The Flax Tree… Stuart France

* Long ago Coyote was walking his way. He came to a hill on which he saw a man cast his eyes out of his head into a Flax Tree. They hung in the branches of the tree until the … Continue reading

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