Category: Legends
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The birth of the phoenix
What once was coalSparksFail to IgniteSmoking cinders Roll As A bird Takes To flightFlames No longer lick Embers glow no moreTwo strong legs kick And wings help the bird soarDarkness diminished by wingsOutstretched wideThe birth of the phoenix Has just been describedHigh up above flies the magical birdOnce only ever dreamed of in our real world
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Stand Off
Aphrodite looked around. The garden where they’d landed was beautiful… trees around the perimeter, a small lake over there and a flower bed underneath the chariot. She felt sad. Why couldn’t Athena have landed in the centre of the lawn? There were strange white lines that she could see marking out a rectangle with two…
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Leftovers
It’s over. For another year. Time to take down all of the fake cobwebs, fancy lanterns, candles and other decorations, and box them away. Time to put the witch back in her cage and the bat back in its cave. No, that’s not right. The witch in the cave and the bat, the cage. No,…
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The Ghost Post!
An extra post for Halloween… I’ve been chatting with Nikki about things that go bump in the night. Nikki mentioned that one night, when she was younger after moving house, she heard footsteps in her bedroom, stepping toward and away from her, and somebody opening and closing the door. When she opened her eyes, there…