Category: At an Intersection
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21 August: Part: 23 A Mad Horse Amongst Swords
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 23 A Made Horse Amongst Swords Last Week … but Pierre knows, we are like mycorrhizae; we are all connected. Dr Crowthorne is a silhouette in the open doorway of room B4, sunlight flooding in from the windows behind him, and…
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14 August: A Six – Part: 22, Mycorrhizae
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 22 “Mycorrhizae” Last week: “Yes, I am hungry,” his eyes laugh, but his expression is dialed-to-neutral. “You seek advice, Brigid, which I cannot offer until your thirst is deep enough; advice must be cool water to a dry throat,” and I look…
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5 August: A Six – Part 21: The Beauty of Imperfection
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 21 “The Beauty of Imperfection” last week: “I fill my lungs with swirling night air, look up at the amber light filling the window of my flat, and shout … “You look uncomfortable,” I say , and Hanzō nods, “Wabi-sabi,” and…
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28 July: A Six – Part :20
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 20: Samurai Oni no Hanzō Arrives last week: “… surely, the last syllables uttered at the end of time, Brigid … *Memento Mori.” “… yes, but if one lives with the knowledge that the body’s ultimate aim is to be dead,…
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22 July: A Six – Part 19: Memento Mori
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 19 – Memento Mori And he springs off the bed and shouts in a voice lean and tense as wire, “… Conneries conneries conneries.” Memento Mori I wake my laptop, take another sip of lavender tea, and study the leafy debris…
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15 July: A Six – Part 18 : Bedlam
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 18 – Bedlam Last week: “He’s gone, Brigid,” says the Gatekeeper, “Your Connor is gone.” This is *Bedlam Hospital, where once a week I come to visit Pierre … “…it’s three years and five months, says the psychiatrist, as if she…
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8 July: A Six – Part : 17 Black and White
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 17 Black and White Last week: Last week: Connor slowly materialises, his anger falling in flurries of ash around him. Pierre’s eyes glaze wide with shock, he leaps up, upending the table with a resonating hollow-throated thud, and a chaos of…
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1 July: A Six – Part 16: Smoke in the Mirrors
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 16 Smoke in the Mirrors Last week ended with: But I know how we can get Pierre to cut the cord for us. “Let’s do dinner out, Pierre, at Six Sentence Café & Bistro, my treat,” I say, “I’m exhausted by…
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26 June: A Six – Part 15: To Bleed the Sky
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part #15 To Bleed the Sky Last week ended with… AI asks Connor, “And who the hell are you?” To Bleed the Sky “I am of the dead, and beyond your reckoning, but still to be reckoned with,” says Connor, and I…
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19 June: A Six – Part 14: Behind the Eye of a Needle
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 14 Behind the Eye of a Needle Connor sits at my desk, bleak as a Puritan, staring at my open laptop … his eyes dim as altar lights, his face luminous from the cold bright screen, and in this dream-haunted night…
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