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March 12, 2017
Flash Fiction
Her hands reach out for intangible dreams as dust motes dance in the spectrum of light across one corner of the room.
Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character stories, also known as twitterature, the dribble (50 words), the drabble (100 words), and sudden fiction (750 words).Love and light,Tracexoxolove, peace and light x
Flash fiction is an umbrella term used to describe any fictional work of extreme brevity, including the Six-Word Story, 140-character stories, also known as twitterature, the dribble (50 words), the drabble (100 words), and sudden fiction (750 words).Love and light,Tracexoxolove, peace and light x
March 11, 2017
Editing Book Two ~ Awake in Purple Dreams
Character Excerpts#amediting Book Two
Jerry
Tommy
Awake in Purple Dreams ~ meaning dreaming while awake. In the books, it is a place where reality and dreams meet via a thin mystical veil that joins worlds. Reality becomes blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy experienced while awake.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream ~ Edgar Allan Poe
He noticed a woman giving him the eye from the other end of the bar. Sinfully enticing him from under a strand of wavy c...
Jerry
Tommy
Awake in Purple Dreams ~ meaning dreaming while awake. In the books, it is a place where reality and dreams meet via a thin mystical veil that joins worlds. Reality becomes blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy experienced while awake.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream ~ Edgar Allan Poe
He noticed a woman giving him the eye from the other end of the bar. Sinfully enticing him from under a strand of wavy c...
March 2, 2017
The Gift Maker ~ Mark Mayes ~ Tracey-anne's Book Review
A beautiful poetic fairy taleWow, my expectations of an introduction to something magical were met, exceeded even, in this fabulous debut novel.
The story begins with the character Thomas receiving a gift, mysteriously delivered. Later he finds out that his friend Liselotte also received a gift. Both approach the enigmatic boxes quite differently. They embark on a journey, though not together, and are soon followed by a friend called Johann. From this point, certain experiences cause the chara...
February 17, 2017
Las Pozas ~ Mexico
Las Pozas (“the Pools”) is a sculpture garden built by Edward James, the eccentric English poet and artist, and patron of the Surrealist movement. More than 2,000 feet above sea level, in a tropical rain forest in the mountains of Mexico, it includes more than 80 acres of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering Surrealist sculptures in concrete.
Las Pozas is near the village of Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, a seven-hour drive north of Mexico City. In the early 1940s, James went to Lo...
Las Pozas is near the village of Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, a seven-hour drive north of Mexico City. In the early 1940s, James went to Lo...
Banking - Researching for book three - Shining Sword.
Researching for book three - Shining Sword.
Genre: FantasyI don't like politics, never have, but for this book, I wanted to play with various ideas on how a society can be manipulated by a self-indulgent minority and at what point the people would start to rebel. Obviously just looking around at the world at present stirred many thoughts. Money is power, so that's where my research started.
Did you know?The word for credit comes from the latin word 'Credere' meaning to believe. ...
Genre: FantasyI don't like politics, never have, but for this book, I wanted to play with various ideas on how a society can be manipulated by a self-indulgent minority and at what point the people would start to rebel. Obviously just looking around at the world at present stirred many thoughts. Money is power, so that's where my research started.
Did you know?The word for credit comes from the latin word 'Credere' meaning to believe. ...
February 9, 2017
Lost Ancient Forests
Diver Dawn Watson found incredible ancient forest under the North Sea
10,000-year-old trees appear to have been hidden underwater since Ice Age
The 45-year-old discovered oak trees with eight-metre branches off Norfolk.A shocked diver has found an incredible 10,000-year-old pre-historic forest under the North Sea and experts believe it could have once stretched as far as Europe.
Diver Dawn Watson, 45, discovered the remarkable 'lost forest' when she was diving just 300 metres off the coast of Cl...
10,000-year-old trees appear to have been hidden underwater since Ice Age
The 45-year-old discovered oak trees with eight-metre branches off Norfolk.A shocked diver has found an incredible 10,000-year-old pre-historic forest under the North Sea and experts believe it could have once stretched as far as Europe.Diver Dawn Watson, 45, discovered the remarkable 'lost forest' when she was diving just 300 metres off the coast of Cl...
Hundreds of ancient earthworks built in the Amazon
February 2017
Jenny WatlingThe Amazonian rainforest was transformed over two thousand years ago by ancient people who built hundreds of large, mysterious earthworks. The ditched enclosures, in Acre state in the western Brazilian Amazon, were concealed for centuries by trees. Modern deforestation has allowed the discovery of more than 450 of these large geometrical geoglyphs.
The function of these mysterious sites is still little understood - they are unlikely to be villages, since archaeo...
Jenny WatlingThe Amazonian rainforest was transformed over two thousand years ago by ancient people who built hundreds of large, mysterious earthworks. The ditched enclosures, in Acre state in the western Brazilian Amazon, were concealed for centuries by trees. Modern deforestation has allowed the discovery of more than 450 of these large geometrical geoglyphs.The function of these mysterious sites is still little understood - they are unlikely to be villages, since archaeo...
Illustrations of Undine ~ Arthur Rackham ~ August Gaber - Adalbert Mueller
Art collaboration between Adalbert Mueller and August Gaber. Undine is a fairy-tale novella (Erzählung) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance.
Illustration of Undine from 1909 ~ Arthur Rackham
Art collaboration between Adalbert Mueller and August Gaber The story is descended from Melusine, the French folktale of a water-sprite who marries a knight on condition that...
Art ~ I close my eyes to see
Gesso base ~ Watercolour crayons and pencils
Love and light,Tracexoxo
love, peace and light x
Archaeologists find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave ~ 2017
February 8, 2017 by Dov SmithExcavations in a cave on the cliffs west of Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, prove that Dead Sea scrolls from the Second Temple period were hidden in the cave, and were looted by Bedouins in the middle of the last century. With the discovery of this cave, scholars now suggest that it should be numbered as Cave 12.The surprising discovery, representing a milestone in Dead Sea Scroll research, was made by Dr. Oren Gutfeld and Ahiad Ovadia from th...
