"A sonnet in adoration..."
If ancient bards had sung your praise,Would Trojan Helen be divine?Had Shakespeare put you in his plays,Would his fair Juliet so shine?If history had known your name,What queen, what empress would not pale,By you outshone in face and fame,What haughty...
"The concluding chapter of the mystery of Tintamare, wherein all is revealed."
The Moon, who from the hilltop streamsOn each white face and throat her beams,The song-enchanted fellows sendTheir chords of gold Rippling beyond time’s end.- Robert Graves, Music at Night. It was a door.But a door like no other. Moments before, it...
"Claudia comes closer to unravelling the mystery of Tintamare."
At last methought that I had wander’d farIn an old wood; fresh washed in coolest dew,The maiden splendours of the morning starShook in the steadfast blue.- Tennyson.Like the delicate notes that open a violin sonata; each element of the morning...
"Inspired by the mystique and sophistication of Stephanie, our very own beautiful Feline Fantasy."
“DJ Stephanie…is DJ Stephanie doing a set here tonight?”“Ah Stephanie, no, no. Tomorrow, nine o’clock. You come back then.”Mick smiled and blinked hard as he looked at the man’s glistening, dark brown eyes. Eyes set into a hairy, brown Aegean...
"Belinda's life is changed forever one day in Brooklyn."
“Excuse me.”Belinda turned to see the pleasant, broadly smiling face of an old woman. She smiled back.“You dropped something dear,” the woman said quietly.“Oh?”“Yes, I think it was a postage stamp. Stamps are quite expensive you know, you should look...
"The mystery of Tintamare is brought into sharper focus."
What art thou… that fearest not the sea? - Moschus of Syracuse, Europa. The Indo-European thunder god, like most of his kin, goes by various names; in Sanskrit he is Rudra The Howler, in the Norse sagas he is called Thor,...
"Claudia finds out more of the mystery that surrounds her beautiful home, Tintamare"
Being greatly stirred,I turn to where I heardThat whisper in the night;And there a breath of lightShines like a silver star. - Urbiciani, Canzonetta c. 1250 AD Claudia beamed a smile of satisfaction as she took her seat in the courtyard...
"Kayla ascendant !"
Although the desert sands stretch farBeyond the silent, pale horizon,Their immensity is as nothingTo the new-born damselfly.For fear and anguish are to her unknown,Above the desert’s vastness all alone.- The Canticle of Menkeret. We are captives; bound and almost blind, Jaano...
"Strange what little things you find at the bottom of old boxes when you tidy up..."
Sonnet On a Journey Be still O rolling waves and hearThe happy telling of my love,And you frail craft that homeward steer,Let go the driving winds above!Now all you brethren of the sea,Stay a while and follow meFor what I tell is true...
"The mystery of Claudia's beautiful new house on the shores of the Mediterranean deepens"
Hast thou heard the butterfliesWhat they say betwixt their wings?Or in stillest eveningsWith what voice the violet woosTo his heart the silver dews? - Tennyson, Adeline. Claudia awoke and saw that the sun was already well above the horizon. The view...