On Special Duties
Edgar was so pleased that he once had once trained as a fell runner, the last bullet had only just missed him. Now only the sides of the Ludendorff bridge offered him any potential sanctuary. As a SS officer pulled…
Derwentwater
The purest blue sharply defines the mountains, cascading down to Derwentwater. Luxuriating in gentle sunlight. I am cooled by pure air from the lake. I see stark rock faces breaking the burgeoning green of May. Ancient tracks slither, guiding shepherds,…
Dreaming at Lodore Falls
The purest blue sharply defines the mountains, cascading down to Derwentwater. Luxuriating in gentle sunlight. I am cooled by pure air from the lake. I see stark rock faces breaking the burgeoning green of May. Ancient tracks slither, guiding shepherds, fell…
Smiles and Laughter Abound
What to expect, that's what I wonder as I approach Bradford University, I am arriving early for the roads are quiet. No problem parking then. Briefly I wonder if I have arrived on the wrong date, for there are so…
And let there be Light
Three millennium ago the stone man with the help of the eagle saved our world. Now I call you together at our parliament where all are equal and may speak freely, to see if and how we should return to…
The river that smoked saved us from Arebati’s daughter.
The daughter of Arebati turned against us, perhaps because we had tried to steal the fire. The day she arrived was the end for my people. She was the mother of all the Negoogunogumbar's, and they ate the children of…
I am Tunlit
l am a Tunlit called Nootlin and I am dying. Some once called my people Skrealing. Of my people only the child Nuvuk lives, the eagle told me that when I asked him. He told me also that Nuvuk will…
My Rongorongo [Report]
The Ariki had eyes which looked out to the sky, he was the first to see the great bird. My people called out to the great bird, we danced and shouted feleta, but then she took our fau, you call…
The Testimony of Unna
We thought at first she who came within the ship was Frija, for her halo of deep blue indicated to us that she had sailed in on the waves of the ocean. We knew that she must be of the…