Fantasy

Nowt to do with Led Zep. More Alan Garner.

The mystery of the stars

Chapter 2

Dragon Roared

In the beginning there was ... Emptiness, Order, Chaos, All, Nothing, Logos

In the beginning there was ...

In the beginning I was.

The metal man trudged onward. His legs were the width of tree trunks, and the sand ruffled around him, like water frothing behind a very large boat.

When I was young
I wore all my selves
Like ballgowns-
Soft cotton naivety, glittering green mystery,
Every facet a stitch
Of the years, the beautiful influencing words.

(A lavu is a little wigwam-type construction lived in by tribes such as the Sami in Finland.) :D

Old jam jars filled with nails,
Screws and rusty washers never to be used,
But I was still a butterfly

Patrick was already inside the dream, waiting for her.

Listen
Listen. Can you hear the sound?
So still it is, so still
That gold-edged Time, airy visitor
Treads the eternal marble, stirs- so soft- the vacant air
Leaves yet no trace.

Ah, welcome my old nemeses,
fictitious bandersnatch.
Ever slick as a greased pig,
yet harder to catch.

Open your eyes and you will see,
A forest, that has never known the touch of human hands, where fantasies are real, and all else has become make believe.

Cameron was a 12-eyed blue alien who lived and worked in a sky-scraper in a big city on a small moon of the planet Xanadu.

I know 'coqueluche' can also mean 'whooping cough'- but I meant it in the 'darling' sense :) Hope my dictionary wasn't lying to me!

The final book in THE BAXTER FILES.

Get ready for Zorgien Tech!

Wierd and personally wonderful. crows, eagles dirty pubs and dusty roads,

“Come in, lads, come in.”
The players limped into a poorly formed circle with breath heavier than the footsteps of a herd of elephants; they were exhausted.

'Rebith,' The thought swam about in my head, 'How could I be reborn and at this age now?'

A short story about surviving after a nuclear war.

She talks about the book she's reading: