Category: Legends

• The Lady, Emeralda

  Visitors to the mansion seem to know folk they’ve never met…Dogs and cats stay outside as soon as the sun has set…Some say the chains that rattle belonged to Lady Smart…Others state the shrieks and cries belong to her ‘in part’…Guests who stay within the lodge see a figure dressed in green…Passers by see lights…

  Tom

  Sep 6, 2012

  Dance, Favourites, Feel GOOD!, Ghosts, Legends, Random, REPOST, Rhyme, Time

  Age, Happiness, History, Imagination, Inspiration, Short Story, Surreal Reality, Tales, Writing

• Turbulence

  Aphrodite was green. Athena’s satnav system had directed the four-horse-drawn chariot directly through the fiercest of storm clouds. Athena and Hera were both ‘sat’ in the front of the chariot, and Aphrodite had the back seat all to herself. The chariot plummeted, gained height, and flipped over right and left. It was all Aphrodite could…

  Tom

  Sep 2, 2012

  Abilities, Confusion, Direction, Feel GOOD!, Legends, Nature, Random

  150 words, Age, History, Imagination, Inspiration, Parallel Dimensions, Short Story, Surreal Reality, Tales, Writing

• Before England’s Green and Pleasant Land

  Back in the day when England was connected to the rest of Europe by land, Southern England was a desert. This was during the Ice Age, and mankind was just taking his / her / its first steps, competing with woolly mammoths, woolly hippos, woolly rhinoceroses, and woolly sabre-toothed tigers for food and places to…

  Tom

  Aug 31, 2012

  Favourites, Feel GOOD!, Legends, Nature, Real Life, The World, Time

  Age, Day-to-day, Freedom, History, Life

• Sovereign

  Here I go again, waffling on about my rather strange pull to the early Seventeenth Century. I’ve not had anything appear to me, or had any inkling to write or investigate anything for a few months now. Not only that, but I haven’t had any images appear in my mind of the ship or three…

  Tom

  Aug 30, 2012

  Background, Confusion, Direction, Legends, Mystery, Questions, Random Memories, Real Life, The World, Time

  1642, Coincidence, Day-to-day, Dreams, History, Messages from the Universe, Thoughts

• Hope Before Despair

  Could there be a world without hope? The word, yes; the emotion, no. Well, I hope not anyway! But wait… The word ‘hope’ is from an Old English, or Anglo Saxon, word that was used before the year 900AD, ‘hopa’. Despair, or the lack or loss of hope, was introduced between the years 1275 and…

  Tom

  Aug 29, 2012

  Direction, Feel GOOD!, Hope, Legends, Questions, Random, Real Life, The World, Time, Words

  101 Tasks, Coincidence, Day-to-day, Dreams, Freedom, Gratitude, Happiness, History, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Messages from the Universe, Thoughts, Writing