Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
It was a tortoise-shell hardness of a sky, belligerent with smudges of fast-moving pockets of darkly threatening vapour. Gusty blasts of some giant's ill-tempered breath gave morose promise of weather yet to come. But by some trick of welcome providence that same wind dispersed the chaotic clouds, finally leaving that great dome clear and blue, introducing a blaze of sun to the unmistakable fall equation.
Shafts of sunlight glimmered off stark white wood splinters mounded beside ash and poplar where the immature trunks had been precisely incised, notched to be stored within beaver lodges. A small, muscular black, green and gold snake lay still among a riot of leaves, worshipping the sun. A hairy woodpecker intently thrummed its homage to the season.
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