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 Illumination
by Daniel Gallagher
One day I had a dream that led to a song.....but this was no ordinary song.
It was back a few months ago, back when it was much cooler than it is now. I had been checking email and reading news, and, having the day off, I allowed myself to get drowsy.
So I went and lay down for a quick nap.
The next thing I knew I was sitting on the side of a hill, a very green hill, and twilight was approaching. There were hills all around me, and bits of forest, and it seems I could see for miles in front of me.
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 Sunrise at Kenya's Lake Nakuru
by Brendan Harding
This is a short extract from the African Collection which I am at present working on. It is of course part of a much larger body of work but I hope it represents the wonder which I sensed in this unforgettable place on the shores of Kenya's Lake Nakuru. Francis, I whispered across the hillside. At least I think I whispered
On rare visits to her 'old home' she would sit me down and gush words at a hundred miles an hour (as was her style), filling my head with pictures of Arab dhows raising sail on the Indian ocean. "How the waters gleam and sparkle," she would say, her physical presence beside me, her heart still beating beneath the equatorial sun. Or images of Masai warriors, "...the tallest men you've ever seen, with skins of shining coal. More handsome than...". She couldn't find the words which a child may easily comprehend.
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