Unordered Tales

The dark cloud in the wooden box

A rich landowner brings back something rotten from the Russian birch forests.

A - Echoes - Prologue

A driver is chilled by a pale face staring at him through glass

A - Scavenging for Souls

A lonely man searches for souls in the ruins of buildings

Andalusia

Past dusty rows of jagged mountains Speckled with villages, blurred in the haze Over Granada, where gardens sang with grinning fountains Where we'd...

Ashridge

In Ashridge we froze, as through its rows of hypnotic beeches A deer trod stealthily, russet coat blurring into reddening leaves For a moment I...

B - Echoes - Chapter One

Continued...why does the painting haunt her so&;#063;
Cherry

B - Submergence

There was a time when I thought of nothing else but you Of you waiting on the sand as I waded out to sea Wincing as urchins snagged my feet, gulls...

B - Vapour Trails

They don't last for very long...

Beetle God, The

She'd run screaming after he'd mentioned the beetle god. He'd only been teasing her, letting his imagination work overtime, but sitting there on his...

C - Echoes - Chapter Two

Continued...The dead are walking in Thormalden

C - Echoes - Chapter Two

Continued...The dead are walking in Thormalden

C - Snapshot

A couple are reunited after many years - or are they&;#063;

Catalogue

Sometimes I wake and wish I had the contents of the day Wrapped and sealed in tiny drawers nail deep in dust That I could rise, scratch my head, then...

Coronation Postponed

I dreamed last night we were ready for the crowning of a king We sat, silent and shivering, in a cathedral's massive bowel Expecting the roar of a...

D - Chapter Three

Continued...

D - The Straits

In the evening the sea glowed a war-like red And the stars blinked back from a darkening sky The cooling sand stirred beneath my head While waves...