Raymond G. Taylor
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Author living in Kent, England. Writer of short stories and poems in a wide range of genres, forms and styles. A non-fiction writer for 40+ years. Subjects include art, history, science, business, law, and the human condition.
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Run with the Pack: Chapter 9
In the nights and days that came to pass, the growing thaw brought more and more life to the forest. The two wolves sought food with a growing appetite and an ever-pressing hunger. Acting together, but without any conscious planning, Bahr and Elha were able to feed that hunger by acting in concert, whether to hunt live food or to sniff down carrion.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Chapters
Nuts to vegetarians. Runner-Up in Nourished Challenge.
When it comes to eating meat, I stopped 40 years ago in 1983. I recall the last meaty meal I ate, mostly because it was a mistake, an oversight. Invited to dinner with some work friends I had neglected to tell them that I was a vegetarian. Completely forgot to say, that is, until a big bowl of steaming spag bol was placed in front of me. Appealing as it was, it seemed, to all the other guests, I had to steel myself to tackle it.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Feast
Run with the Pack: Chapter 8
As Bahr approached Elha, she turned and both wolves stopped, looking at each other from a few paces away. Bahr was still panting from his ordeal and the exertion of fighting off the stranger wolf. There was a deep gash to his shoulder and another wound to his flank. This time, when Bahr approached Elha closer, she did not growl or show her fangs. She licked his muzzle, and he returned the gesture. They were now reconciled to each other, it seemed.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Chapters
Art for our sake: seven
This stunning work by Ukranian artist Maria Prymachenko (1908-1997) is one of many that are endangered as a consequence of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and continued attacks on that beleaguered country. the Ivankiv museum that housed many of Prymachenko's works was destroyed by fire following a (claimed) Russian attack As ArchiReader explains, this was not just an attack against the museum but an attack on Ukrainian culture and the Ukrainian people.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Art
Ecstasy await
A look, a pearl of saline moisture barely visible. His lips move, not quite a whisper. Her hand lifts, the forefinger extending, rising as if by charm or sorcery, levitation, toward her own lips. The tip barely touching the slight, unseen, down, whispering above the pinkish-red cupid's bow covering a hidden ivory parade within.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Fiction
The witches’ granddaughters
Shepherd's crook and monkish cassock, Crucifix and jewelled haddock. The words were chanted over a pitch pot aflame in wreathes of slick and slimy smoke, on a solid island within the rank marshlands beyond the western wall of the city.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Fiction
Write-a-witch awards
Of all the characters I have ever loved from film, TV, book, stage, or song, some of my favorites have been witches. Kind witches like Glinda or her nemesis the Wicked Witch of the West. From everyday witches like Samantha from Bewitched to the Wayward Sisters of Macbeth. Good witches, bad witches, literary witches or real witches, witches and witchery in fiction fascinate me. I have even ventured to offer my own interpretations of what it is to be a witch. I have added some links below.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Writers
A death to literature
Literature, huh, yeah, What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Say it again, y'all* Literature? Phooeee! As a boy in school, I hated English lit. Despite my recent-found love of certain exceptional examples, like Melville's Moby Dick, I still do.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Writers
Taylor on art
Articles about art and artists, with exhibition reviews and a roundup of everything arty on Vocal. Latest articles Art not art Behold the Banksy This is not a work of art Sylvia Pankhurst: Tea Set by a Suffragette Alison Lapper at Bethlem Museum of the Mind Lady Helen Lands in London Images of Wonder: A World in Common at Tate Modern Constable hits the news Of phones and photographs Marion Patrick: Dog's Head
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Art
Marion Patrick: Dog's Head
Marion Patrick is an artist you probably never heard of. Unless you have visited the Bethlem Museum of the Mind in Beckenham, a London suburb bordering Kent to the south east of England, you are unlikely to have seen her work. Patrick was a one-time resident at the Bethlem Royal Hospital, set in expansive leafy grounds just outside of the town.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Art
Run with the Pack: Chapter 7
The wolf was almost upon him before Bahr could react. “Run whelp!” Bahr, facing the stranger, refused to run and stood his ground. Before him was a fearsome wolf, ragged from a hard winter but strong of jaw and fixed of stare. Other wolves appeared but remained several paces behind. The other wolves, all male, were not many but not one.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Chapters
