Category: SSS
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18 Feb: A Six—And It’s Written
Beyond an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Day 8 Part 3 Et Scriptum Est — And It’s Written This Six continues from Nick’s (The Gatekeeper’s) comment of last week … I take the chair beside Nick; the book lies open, relaxed in its binding, “A leap from shadows of persecution into…
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10.2 A Six: Et Scriptum Est
Beyond an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Day 8 Part 2 Et Scriptum Est — And It’s Written Continued from Part One “Nick—what?” He points under the table at the book—words etching blink-fast across the page: “The word invasive will fill his head; he will question if this book…
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4 Feb: And It Is Written
Beyond an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Day 8 … And It Is Wrtten Nick and I enter Oxford’s Duke Humfrey’s Library, the Old Bodleian, and at once the air changes—cooler, tinged with the scent of bibliosmia and the faintest hint of dust that has settled since medieval scholars…
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30 January: Jamaica Inn
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 7.1 The Nature of Being …Continued from Part 7 The Nature of Being Where after the Inn,Jamaica it was called,the land gave up its trees to stone. Its ancient breath lay bareto brooding clouds at sight’s edge, and a notch in…
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29 Jan: The Nature of Being
Beyond an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 7 The Nature Of Being Mist hangs close and clings to itself, a flutish tune whistling between the gaps of cold stone and purple heather—it’s an ancient hermetic song, calling us in and calling us out. Nick and I are atop…
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23 Jan: A Six – The Death of Thomas Thetcher
The Death of Thomas Thetcher In Winchester Cathedral’s graveyard is a tombstone “In memory of Thomas Thetcher, who died of a violent fever contracted by drinking cold small beer when hot the 12th of May 1764. Aged 26 Years.” “Small beer” is a weak fermented beer of low alcohol, and had he consumed regular “strong”…
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21 Jan: A Six – To Stoke a Fire
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 6 To Stoke a Fire Nick opens the Georgian bowed glass doors of the Wykeham Arms, “Thank you,” I say as the barman looks up from pouring a pint and nods, “Table by the bishop’s mitre is ready; it’s been relaid…
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16 Jan: A Six – Part: 5
At an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 5 The Edge of Breath, Part 5 Sometimes you smell the fragrance of eternity, and other times you look down, see your reflection in the mud, and check to see if you’ve stepped in something, but today as lightning sheered across…
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11 Jan: A Six – Part: 4
Beyond an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Part 4 Stonehenge: Latitude: 51.1789° N, Longitude: -1.8278° W The gods decided to send a storm … but they weren’t just talking about it – they were bloody screaming, and the clouds were black as the brows of doom. Nick shouts over…
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17 Dec: A Six – Drifting from The Moles Pub
Beyond an Intersection Named After an English King and a SaintSix Sentence Story: Day 4 Drifting from The Three Moles Pub “Did ya get lost, or what, Brigid? … re-bloody-calculating,” says the child-like brogue of the SatNav — Nick’s focus snaps to the map on the PCM screen, “… lil’ fucker …” he grins. “Thanks…
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