Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Sedge ran his finger across the shiny surface. Strange, despite it was wet, it wasn’t cold. He knuckle-rapped it. And neither had it the sound of ice. Yet there was his wren-stone visible within it, and someone’s lost arrowheads.
He twisted his lips, pulled on his beard, and humphed.
Had the magician erred? “Join me again to my wren-stone axe,” Sedge had asked. And here without doubt was the axe he’d lost in the reeds by the water. But here too was a strange land. Had the Travel-Fungi took him astray? Yet how so, when without a doubt, his wren-stone was here.
Noises. Voices. Sedge hid beneath the wood jetty that held the strange ice, not to be seen by the strange men.
Men? He spied them, wearing strange garb in flower-bright colours. No, demons they must be. Indeed, a strange land.
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A selection of the mesolithic and neolithic tools and weapons found during the making of Whitlingham Broad. Quarried for aggregates for the Norwich Southern Bypass, it was subsequently allowed to flood; nature has since reclaimed it along with its environs.
crispina kemp 
Time travel! How perfect for this prompt. And I love the way you worked a bite of fungi into it- clever indeed!
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But of course. Many of the delightful fungi that find their way onto this blog were photographed in the same place as these flints.
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Very interesting!
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Thank you. 🙂
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You’re welcome 😉
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You are so very clever, Crispina.
Wonderful time travel story (and I, too, noted the fungi addition!)
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Um, I like time-slip and have written four novel-length stories in that genre… two of which, no, three of which I indeed to prep in the coming year/s for Kindle and POD. Yes, there is no stopping me 🙂
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You are most prolific, my friend!
No. There should not be!
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I guess a really solid brick wall might delay me somewhat… 🙂
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Hahah!!
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🙂
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One up for nature.
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I take it that’s in reference to the reclamation. I believe it was a conditional requisite to the quarry. The site is now a much loved country park with various water facilities, wonderful hills to fall down, an established woodland, and water birds and .. picnic facilities
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Yes, a reference to “nature has since reclaimed it along with its environs.”
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Way back, when I first started blogging, a posted a feature which included the said location (Whitlingham Country Park).
https://crispinakemp.com/2017/01/28/tipping-a-wink-at-whitlingham/
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I shall check it out, although given where I physically live it is unlikely that I shall see it in the flesh this time around.
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Maybe next time. 🙂
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Now I’ve discovered it’s in England. I was (don’t know quite why) assuming it was in the US. I’m in Cumbria, which is more accessible. OTOH I don’t drive.
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Ah-ha, Cumbria. Nice part of the world, thhough I’ve never been there. My adventures have mostly been southward. And neither do I drive. I walk a lot.
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Whitlingham sounds like a wonderful place to visit. You’ve discovered and posted a lot of photos from there. I look forward to more in the future.
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And no doubt you will have. It’s conveniently placed, too. 🙂
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OH! I look forward to it! 🙂
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🙂
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Excellent Crispina! ❤
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I thank you 🙂
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