The Witch Hunters
Prompt from Ted Strutz After a hearty breakfast of mushrooms on toast, our two intrepid hunter set out to find prey. It was a hard trek crossing Pendle hill, carrying all their paraphernalia. So at noon, when they came across…
Why do I wag my tail
Photo Rochelle Wisoff-Fields My tail often wags, have you ever wondered why. Well with a tail I can tell you many things… There is a hint of autumn in the air. A heavy shower has settled the sand. Now I…
Table top box
You see the table top, if only we could travel safely to the edge. Then abseil down to the floor, we might travel across the red carpet and return to our home. Drat the theatre manager. Who does he think…
Out Walking
Just another day, with the sun shining and Jack in a happy mood it was a pleasure to be out walking, so why am I getting uneasy. The trouble is the path we are following has a awful lot of…
Attempting to just live
Puffing hard as he climbed the stairs to heaven, the magician thought hard about the question he was about to ask. Twelve times Merlin had returned to planet earth, each time he had used his powers to slow the rise…
Though the Lens
The heat wave was relentless, never had the water buffalo and her calf suffered so. All their favourite mud wallows had dried out, their once soft mud was now as hard as iron. Maya kept her tail swinging, but the…
The architect
Ivy realised that Septimus needed a new focus. Each day he followed her to work and had become a fine mason in his own right. Ivy turned to Lance their gangmaster for help. Now Lance was a gifted businessman and…
A step to Far
Have you ever wondered about what life was like before bridges arrived. Septimus recalled how his father related rolling up his monks habit to allow him to ford the river each day as he carried building stone back to the…
Like spindrift
The bond might be broken, but I will remember earth. Humanity may be spread throughout the universe. Spread like spindrift by the catalisum that overtook the blue planet. Our children may be waites and strays, drifting along on cosmic winds.…