Author Archives: Phillip Lemarque

Easy Falafel

PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 10 minutes TOTAL TIME: 30 minutes Servings: make 16 falafel (4 per person.) Ingredients: 2 cups chickpeas (preferably from dry and soak overnight, are best) 1/3 cup chopped, fresh parsley 1/3 cup chopped, cilantro … Continue reading

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Kelpie

The kelpie is a Scottish creature a water horse of sort. It most commonly appears as a beautiful horse in running water and can be identified by the mane that seems to be constantly dripping wet.  The moors were dark, … Continue reading

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L’ Ankou the right arm of death

The night of St Sylvester is the night of the new. The black witch of winter is receding in the dark shadows of the cold winter and replaced by a young one a brand new year.  L’ Ankou is the right … Continue reading

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 Grand Pa’s castle

My lids get heavier and I fall asleep unconscious of the furious storm hitting the castle. The windblast all night in the branches of the sycamore facing my bedroom. Hail knocks with force against the window nonstop, like a machine gun. The … Continue reading

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The piano keys

Tall weeping willows bordering the leading driveway to this monstrous house called the Swiss Chateau. A mystery in itself, rich folks from out of town own it and keep it closed until the summer months. During the closing period, the guardian … Continue reading

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Ghost Story

Story to come very soon

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the blood moon

The concept of Ghosts, spirits, angels, demons and other Paranormal phenomenon is a part of the ethereal-based realm knoWn as the “unKnown”. The passing of peoPle has always been a mysTery––Will there be life after death? Is death the end … Continue reading

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A New Playground

Stella and I firmly believe through time-honored, haunted stories and personal experiences ––that have some degree of truth in them have to be told. We can say with certitude that we do not believe in the after-life, although we had … Continue reading

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Yap, Yap….

In Brittany were I grew up, when I was about twelve years old. One day after school I wandered with a couple of neighborhood kids to the farm of old grouchy Marcel by the duck pond. Nobody ever dared to … Continue reading

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A remembrance of the time past

At the end of a distorted path along the cliff of the Brittany coast just before the Chanel turns to be the Atlantic Ocean. As accounted by my Granny, way back then in the days, without many motorcades and a … Continue reading

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