Category: Mystery
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Nailed
I left the Mansion yesterday where I noticed something nailed to the tree outside the Front Door. On closer inspection, it was Maribel. How she got there is beyond me; the last time I saw her she was locked – erm – on the shelf in the Study. And the even more confusing thing is…
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Contract 42: The Eternal Circular
Queenie noticed the bus approaching in the distance, over the brow of the hill. “That’s an old bus” she muttered to herself as she rummaged through the stack of old Lottery tickets and sweet wrappers in her handbag, looking for her bus pass. She didn’t speak aloud, although there was nobody else with her at…
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Chyldelike
The Inner ChyldeThat dwells insideDemands with tantrums to be heardTo be pleasedBut vexed if teasedWithout uttering a wordThe Inner ChyldeWith macabre smilesCauses mischief and mayhem galoreYet it will cast a spellOn those who tellThe Chylde to be no moreThe Inner ChyldeNeither tame nor wildWill demand to have its funBut if deniedThe Chylde insideWill make your…
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The Faces in the Bottle Top
A bit of a spooky one, this one. You know how I often see faces in trees and bushes and the like, the Spirit of the Trees as I call them, and on occasion I see faces and animals within the clouds, or Spirit of the Sky, well today I’ve discovered even more spirits… in…
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Which Phoenix? That Phoenix!
History.Mythology.Legend. The more you delve, the more convoluted it becomes. The more answers you find, the more questions you ask. Links appear and disappear like clockwork, characters crawl out of the woodwork and connections that you wouldn’t expect to exist appear within the framework. Everything and everyone in his, her or its place. And somebody…