Tag: 2022-ZenGarden-01

Apollo drew back his bowstring and loosed an arrow, sighing as it soared passed the target and punched into a distant tree. “Brother,” Artemis laughed, “Where is your head today? It most certainly isn’t in our game.” “It makes you wonder what he is thinking about, sister.” Aphrodite watched Apollo shrewdly, brow furrowing. She’d seen […]

‘What are you doing? That’s poison!’ He stopped. His mouth fell open and he slowly released the trigger on the spray unit. She continued to berate him, finally concluding with, ‘Why don’t you go back to the city?’ then turned back to her house, entered and slammed the door. Hard. What was that about? he […]

There have been times throughout my life when I have fallen, whether through temptation, envy or jealousy, leaving me ashamed of the person I have become.  But each time, I have somehow managed to stagger to my feet, determined to become a better person; lead a better life… one I can be proud of. Today, […]

‘Why do all the kids at school scream when a bee flies in?’ Belle looked up at me, cornflower blue eyes reflecting the low sun rays. I sigh. I’ve always wondered the same thing. Having grown up in the backwoods of Norfolk, their lazy buzzing symphony around Mum’s pansy plot was a soothing alarm clock […]

I sat on a bench in the temperate gardens I’d created, listening to the gentle hum of insects and catching the odd snippets of conversation as people passed by. The gardens were in the style of an English cottage garden, interspersed with areas of lawn where families could picnic and play. The landscape was ever […]

The gallery guides were dreading the staff meeting. “Do you think we are going to close?” said one. “Our takings are down. Digitisation and Virtual Reality have decimated visitor numbers. People can’t be bothered to view the original artworks.” To their surprise the curator smiled as he entered. “Welcome to the launch of a scientific […]

Sachie loved her Granddad’s stories about the bad old days. He was so dramatic. “Every kind of pollution. Noise pollution, light pollution, air pollution, water pollution, mind pollution. That last one was the worst, and probably the cause of all the others. People hung onto their terrible habits, even though their way of life was […]

She sat on the porch looking up at the sky. She was engrossed in admiring the night sky. Suddenly, she noticed a change in the atmosphere and a distant light approaching her. Startled, she wondered what it was. As the light came closer, she could see an image. She was taken aback to see a […]

Old Titus knew that tension was mounting in the colony. He had watched carefully as the queen and her retinue of worker bees prowled around the breeding cells. She was not examining the ordinary capped cells, each of which contained the larva of a putative female worker, or the slightly larger cells which housed developing […]

I wanted to be a morning person when I was younger but as I watched the sun rise over another sleepless night, I realized this wasn’t quite what I meant. It was another day in university as I completed the work required of me to get the grades needed for graduate school. I wanted to […]

Rose was dead. To say she was dead furious about the matter was an understatement. Attending her own funeral felt weird, though no one could see her of course, being a spirit. It broke her heart to see the distress written on the faces of her family. Rose’s fiancé, Jack, stood alone, staring miserably towards […]