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Photo prompt round up – Waiting #writephoto

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The photo for this week’s prompt was taken at the Abbey House Museum, Kirkstall, Leeds. I spent a goodly amount of time in that museum as a child. Housed in the gatehouse of the ruined Abbey, it holds everything from … Continue reading →

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The Moons of Mountain Ana V… Stuart France

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* Regardless of content, our most intense moments have a habit of assuming ritual clarity. Together, the figures our characters cut are colourful, and bright, and amusing; the wheel-spinning white car which your mother read about in my story, or … Continue reading →

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The Moons of Mountain Ana IV… Stuart France

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* 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

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* 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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The Moons of Mountain Ana… Stuart France

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* Mountain Ana made the phone to scream. * Squeal of a thousand pigs! Fingers of pain… Scratch my brain. * Continue reading here

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Notes on the Nature of Coyote… Stuart France

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* 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

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …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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Thursday photo prompt – Waiting #writephoto

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Sue Vincent

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 this post with a pingback. Please make sure that … Continue reading →

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Photo prompt round up – Lantern #writephoto

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The photo for this week’s prompt, in spite of the sinister turn many of the responses took, was taken during a convivial evening in the George and Pilgrim in Glastonbury, looking out onto the High Street. The inn was purpose-built … Continue reading →

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An Imperious Impulse IV… Stuart France

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …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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