Vignette 2: Twenty-five words.*

No sooner had he performed the Ritual of the Word than an Imperial Edict expunged the Ritual Word. The Ritual Word was never spoken again. 

At the temple of the Oracle at Siwa, Alexander the Great 

was reputedly acclaimed Pharaoh of Egypt and proclaimed 

the son of Zeus. The worship of the deified Alexander 

superseded the pharaonic rule and supplanted worship 

of the ram-headed sun god Amon-Ra.

See also Vignette 1

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2024/08/vignette-1-twenty-five-words.html

 

See also Vignette 3

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2024/11/vignette-3-twenty-five-words_25.html 

 

Catherine Eisner believes passionately in plot-driven suspense fiction, a devotion to literary craft that draws on studies in psychoanalytical criminology and psychoactive pharmacology to explore the dark side of motivation, and ignite plot twists with unexpected outcomes. Within these disciplines Eisner’s fictions seek to explore variant literary forms derived from psychotherapy and criminology to trace the traumas of characters in extremis. Compulsive recurring sub-themes in her narratives examine sibling rivalry, rivalrous cousinhood, pathological imposture, financial chicanery, and the effects of non-familial male pheromones on pubescence, 

see Eisner’s Sister Morphine (2008)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/sister-morphine.html

and Listen Close to Me (2011)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/published-this-autumn-listen-close-to.html 

and A Bad Case (2015)
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-bad-case-and-other-adventures-of.html

 

*THE LAW OF TWENTY-FIVE: ‘Of the quinary, or number five; that number five pertains to the Law. . . . accordingly the number twenty-five signifies the Law, because five by five — that is, five times five — make twenty-five, or the number five squared.’ 

Augustine’s Tractate 25 on the Gospel of John.

. 

Vignette 1: Twenty-five words.*

‘Remember me? It’s been forty-eight years,’ the stranger with the gun greeted him.

      The man looked up blankly, without recognition. 

      The stranger shot him.

 

 

See also, Dead Wife, New Hat. (Femme morte, chapeau neuf.

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2012/10/dead-wife-new-hat-femme-morte-chapeau.html

 

See also Vignette 2

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2024/08/vignette-2-twenty-five-words.html

 

See also Vignette 3

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2024/11/vignette-3-twenty-five-words_25.html 

 

Catherine Eisner believes passionately in plot-driven suspense fiction, a devotion to literary craft that draws on studies in psychoanalytical criminology and psychoactive pharmacology to explore the dark side of motivation, and ignite plot twists with unexpected outcomes. Within these disciplines Eisner’s fictions seek to explore variant literary forms derived from psychotherapy and criminology to trace the traumas of characters in extremis. Compulsive recurring sub-themes in her narratives examine sibling rivalry, rivalrous cousinhood, pathological imposture, financial chicanery, and the effects of non-familial male pheromones on pubescence, 

see Eisner’s Sister Morphine (2008)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/sister-morphine.html

and Listen Close to Me (2011)

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/published-this-autumn-listen-close-to.html 

and A Bad Case (2015)
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-bad-case-and-other-adventures-of.html

 

*THE LAW OF TWENTY-FIVE: ‘Of the quinary, or number five; that number five pertains to the Law. . . . accordingly the number twenty-five signifies the Law, because five by five — that is, five times five — make twenty-five, or the number five squared.’ 

Augustine’s Tractate 25 on the Gospel of John.

. 

 

 

Harvest.

 Hope lives on air.

The empty hay barn,

stacked with raw sky.

.

Photo credit: RH Dengate / 1960's Barn / CC BY-SA 2.0           

See also, Ellis Island 1902:

https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2016/03/ellis-island-1902.html