Tag: writing
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A Vow Tested: A short story part 6
Chapter 6 The rest of the journey to Ninidom was smooth and they arrived without further delay or incident. However upon entry, they found the mayor had decreed the city to fast and pray in sackcloth and ashes for three days by demand of a vagabond prophet who claimed for certain shameless sins they were…
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A vow tested: a short story part 5
Chapter Five They entered the secret passageway and heard a click as they did so. They had triggered a foot plate inside that closed the bookcase behind them. Fortuntaly, as they discovered, there was a switch on the wall that would reopen it. They went down the stairs, headed underground, guided by the torchlight through…
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A Vow Tested: A short story part 4
Chapter Four Upon entrance of the Glorious Chub it could be noted the interior did not match up to the attractive quality of the exterior, quite the opposite in fact. The seats were worn with scruffy cushions, the tables were shabby, dirty, and sticky, the carpet was blotchy with an assortment of congealed stains seeming…
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Temple of Despair part 2: A poem
The second part, which is as far as I got, of my poem, ‘the Temple of Despair.’ I am pursuing other poetry projects now and, honestly, I’m not too sure where this one was going. Awaking from a Merciful Slumber I awake from the drowsy depths of sleep, and what lady of wonder stands by…
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Writing Down the Bones: Book Review
I am posting a book review that is on my old website (Pagetime (wordpress.com)), as I am no longer running that site all my future book reviews will be on this website if you are hoping for more, to anyone who found my old site. I was surprised at the number of views I was…
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There is a Grave called Death: A Poem
There is a Grave called Death Some may think it a barren hope, and call the Christian a fool who at the sheer fantastic does grope, and say, ‘calm, you thing of lunatic; but so long is a length of rope.’ And, it’s true it’s a kind of kindness to inform of reality to the…
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How should I write: a Poem
How should I write? ‘How should I write?’ I said to my fair Muse, ‘Disarm yourself, even the winter woos when cold is accompanied by the sun, and sunshine never tries to get light done; the blazing orb simply raises its mass and kingdoms gaze as its glory does pass; and though your fire might…
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Meditation on a leaf: A Poem
Isolated Leaf On a tree a lone leaf that perhaps wishes to entrust a grief to some soul magnanimous enough to consider the dignity of nature’s lowly twig furnisher: its fellows are shrivelling below and it won’t live to see the new green grow. ‘I half wonder,’ it said ‘if my sin was refusing to…
Room for reflection 