oblique stratagems

 

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The Black Book Restored: Fragments 1A to 33 (second half)

Whether you like it or not, there is one true meaning and all else is rough fancy...
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 1 of 4)

Her name was ‘Diane’. A name I have preserved in my fiction for over thirty-five years. Whenever I wish to depict a fantasy woman, who is also all-too-human, I picture her.
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 2 of 4)

I remembered the look on her face, the wide-eyed incredulity that would almost have been funny in any other context, as her fingers turned into butterflies and flew away.
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 3 of 4)

Real life lacks the structure of fiction. It is full of loose ends, of random events with no further significance, of dramatic turns from which no moral can be drawn. Yet sometimes, we perceive patterns in the raw chaos of existence. We insist that, somehow, it must all make sense.
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 4 of 4)

Diane cast her spell, like casting a boulder in a pool of Reality and causing it to ripple. The force of her will made manifest.
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Redemption Pass

Out of a haze of heat and dust, three horsemen rode across the prairie towards Redemption Pass... X-Files in the Wild West? No Part 2, this is it.
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'The Wages of Sin', Unplugged

Live at The Wheatsheaf, 03/02/18
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The Wizard Of Never Was (Part1)

Once upon a Time that Never Was, in a gloomy chamber without a door, atop the highest turret in the royal palace, at the heart of the magical kingdom of Karmalot, there lived a Wizard.
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The Wizard Of Never Was (Part 2)

“Ulrika!” exclaimed The Wizard as the light of realisation suddenly flashed in his piercing blue eyes.
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Five

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Nine

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Lines

somehow
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Poinsettia

we decline to kiss
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Poem of the week

Caroline Danced

she forgets the cakewalk and the swivel
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"Forever Autumn"

With apologies to Justin Hayward, but it did spoil the moment.
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Poem of the week

Sonnet for Philbey

I used to hold her in one hand...
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Poem of the week

Colouring Outside The Lines

Gifted with a colouring book...
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I... I... I... I...

Dem bones, dem bones...