Category: creative writing
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 10 with audio
Finishing his tale Tom reaches over and gently strokes Cerri’s hair as she lies peacefully in the sunlight. He leans over her and softly kisses her lips bringing her back into the moment with him. As Cerri’s eyes open he finds himself staring into the black matter of the Dark Void. Pushing him off of…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 9 with audio
Louarn passes through the entrance in the mighty girth of the oak. Ivy climbs up either side, towering pillars of deep green foliage, guarding the entrance. Expecting the darkness of a cave inside, he is quite surprised to find that the tree is completely hollow. Looking up he can see the clouds rolling by in…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 8 with audio
Designed to resemble Central’s sigil, the aerodrome’s four broad esplanades cross each other encircled by a grand circuit. A runway for each quadrant, although one of them leads only to the Holding Hall, no flights go to the Northern Quadrant and the Whitelands beyond it. A sleek, silvern Teromaton stands on the turning table at…
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Sacred Forest Chapter 6 – with Audio
Louarn is struggling to maintain consciousness. Trying to focus his mind on Breac when it is in a thick fog, is nauseating. With no sense of orientation he can not tell if he is on his paws or his haunches. He shakes his head in an attempt to clear it and peers out with as…
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Sacred Forest Chapter 5 – with Audio
From a distance the Palace glows like a beacon of white light, disguising the festering sickness of pure darkness that beats at its heart. Even with his defusers on Gwern is blinded by the white marble edifice towering above him. But the years have not hardened his heart nor steeled his mind to its irony,…
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Dropping of the Veil
The Besom has swung, the rite is done. Black feathers that drape surround me, Calling me in, with rattle & drum This beat I can not deny me. Threads have been spun Gathered & bound Casting the old into bundle It’s released to the flaming pyre. The loom is prepared The warp has been strung…
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Sacred Forest Chapter 4 – with audio
Awaking from a deep and dream filled sleep Cerridwen stretches her arm out and wraps it around Tom’s warm and welcoming chest, only to collapse into a cold and empty space. The indent in the pillow and remnants of his unique personnel scent are reassuring signs that she has not slept alone. Her sleep drugged…
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Sacred Forest Chapter 3 – with audio
Since leaving the den Breac and Louarn have been travelling in silence. The sun has not yet reached its zenith and they are making good pace. The river, fed by the Fall, can be felt in the air now it must be close. Louarn changes his steady lope into a full gallop in anticipation of…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 2- now with audio
The rain is incessant, as it has been all day, not a deluge nor a down pour nothing with so much passion as that. A never ending stream of wet, blotting out the sun and creating a permanent twilight. A wet that seeps through to the very core of your being leaving you sodden and…
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Sacred Forest
Chapter One Louarn is out checking his larders. As the year falls it is time to stock for the winter lean times. Most of his inner larders have been raided for the third cycle in a row, it has cost him so much more than just a few bellies of food. There will be penance…