Goodnight from Saint Alfred’s Chapel, Winchester, where Princess Maria Isabel of Castille kept vigil beside her late husband’s corpse and only once gave in and brushed her warm kiss against his lifeless lips. #This_Iron_Race

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Goodnight from #Winchester_Meads where the winter waters flood and sheep graze in summer and at break of day #Old_Agony is searching for #pennyroyal to make her potions and end a life before it’s born. #This_Iron_Race

Goodnight from the beaches of Raasay where in the dead of night long ago Skye men descended on the roosting seals and the waters ran with blood. #Isle_of_Skye #Gillanders_Neave #This_Iron_Race

Goodnight from the Hawk Stone where in 1815 #Agatha_Nee lay with Billy Blagg, the blacksmith’s son, and in a few months called on #Mother_Sixpence to get her trouble seen to for she wouldn’t marry a lad set on the army life. #Hedgewitch #Hawk_Stone #This_Iron_Race

#I_made_this My other BlueSky account is dedicated solely to the strange worlds of my twin novel series #This_Iron_Race and #The_Reluctant_Ascent_of_Nevil_Warbrook
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Good night from Granada’s Alhambra where #Princess_Maria_Isabel was betrothed to the Caliph’s son and where lithe-limbed doe-eyed Moorish sons caused her young heart to flutter. #Arranged_marriage #This_Iron_Race

"Sorcerer or not (and should we care?), MacGregor was a consummate conjuror of words," Kate Ferne, author of Minotaur #This_Iron_Race #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor #Book_review

#World_of_Wonder The Talmud is fascinating because each page is an interrogation of the original text's meaning and purpose by generations of commentators.
I balked at mimicking it's typographical layout in #This_Iron_Race but stole the idea that a text's meaning can be disputed and fought over.

"A Gothic tale of strange happenings in the Scottish Hills, clairvoyance, disembodied souls, affliction, wandering spirits, orphaned children, royal scandal, and murder," Orson Parish, author of Rye Harvest #This_Iron_Race #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor #Book_review avebury.press

Petitioners convened on Arthur’s Seat this afternoon to pray for the safe return of writer and scholar #Nevil_Warbrook, best-known for his restoration of MacGregor’s #This_Iron_Race. Controversially, the sacrifice of a ram was abandoned and a libation of honey, milk, barley and wine offered instead.

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#Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor, b. Leith 1811, d. Arbinger 1872. Acknowledged in his lifetime as Scotland’s foremost novelist, he is best known today for Edmund Pevensie, pub. 1857, and the recently restored #This_Iron_Race, orig. pub. 1864-1868. avebury.press/tamburlaine-...

"At the height of his powers in the middle years of the nineteenth century #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor was the preeminent Scottish writer and the equal of any in Greater Britain," Destiny McCloud, Edenborough Review.
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