Mortals and Immortals

The salt water was chilly, playing with the sand at low tide. In the rock pools, warmed by the sun, anemone’s tendrils...

In the harbour the gulls called, answered by the craw of black crows from the fir plantation. The wind billowed the brown...

The boat’s horn sounded a departing blast, the engine’s note rose and white water swirled around the stern. Slowly...

Seven flowers bloomed on seven stems. One red, one white, one yellow, one blue, one orange, one violet and one that could not be...

Their neighbour played his lively pipe; their cousin was keeping the tune on the fiddle, while everyone else danced on the...

Sleepy, yawning, across the meadows the sun rolls out the shadows, long, low dark patches. The flowers turned to look at the...

A small green man sat nonchalantly on her hand. She gently turned him over, pondering his perfectness. Every small finger,...

Ogre? Giant? Troll? Which one today? He lazed in the down, musing. Ogre meant dark castles, clanking armour, battles and...

She awoke and lay listening as the clock ticked relentlessly. She wondered if the figure still sat on the horse in the...

It is said, fine before seven rains before eleven. ‘ Poppycock! Poppycock! Come in and eat your breakfast.’ The...

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