(Editor’s note: Geraint is one of the truly intelligent and productively enigmatic writers at work today. Further proof of that statement comes your way now–Leila)
According to Alice there are more things in Leavenworth than are dreamt of in your winsome motley of osophies and ologies, not to mention the sundry little isms such ologies and osophies spawn. Saying which, Alice departed, leaving me to deal with what was known in the circles I was going round and round in as “everything”. The everything in this instance comprised all that remained of Alice’s recent descent into the Undyrwold – from which she had emerged not only unscathed but triumphant. Her unfurrowed brow was a wonder to behold. Indeed she radiated the rare calm of one who has seen the very dregs of h.sap up close and lived to half-smile at the memory. She had conversed with some of the world’s worst criminals – let alone worst conversationalists. She had gazed on Dead Persons’ Tree in Slabtown’s Crowbar district and spoken with those whose names were on said Tree. Persons or persons unknown were known to her personally. Indeed the roll-call of miscreants encountered might suggest that a Very Large Rock had been moved, leaving all that lived under it free to crawl out into what passed for light.
(Image is of Miss Izzy who divides her time being lovely and driving me out of my mind with annoyances; such being definitive of the Feline species–Leila)
Saragun Springs 
No doubt about it Geraint has got thie wordsmithery sorted. dd
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Hail to The Beef. Geraint’s gotta brand new blagg. loved this, mick
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Geraint
A finer Cheshire Beelzabub has never sneered.
Some people are built better thsn hell. Reading this out loud gives it even more life yet wins incredulous looks from Cats.
Please send more! A week’s worth, hint hint.
Leila
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Geraint
Wonderful and wondrous work (not quite the same thing), the word play is astounding and astonishing! (and hilarious) and a whole walloping WORLD is created within it.
((And because your work is always shockingly (like a light bulb) original and with literary ghosts imbuing it as well (as it should be), this feels like a marriage between “Sunny Jim” Joyce and Artoor Rambow…with generous helpings of Jabberwocky.))
Dale
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PS, I second Leila’s hint, we’d love to put together a whole week of your performances in a row…
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Leila
WOW and whoa!!
Miss Izzy has great eyes, amazing fur and an astonishing tail as well! Tell her I said hi…
Great bookshelves too, and the writer hovering behind her on the screen is a beautiful ghost.
D
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Hi Dale
Miss Izzy thanks you. that picture is at least ten years old, and I think my brother took it–because he took a shitload of images when he finally bought a phone and shared them with me. She is 16 (as is her “brother”) and is changeless. Sky blue eyes, and an extremely possessive attitude with people.
And I thank you!
Leila
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Rich world-building, impressive use of language. The Alice in Wonderland framework applied to a crime/prison setting is creative and imaginative. Truly distinctive.
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All comments warmly welcomed, thank you. The piece is a ‘Minologue’, so called, a trinkety little term I coined for what would otherwise be known more humbly as a one-minute-monologue. Ten years ago the first of several minologue competitions was run by the owner of Atticus bookshop here in Lancaster UK – & the thousand + pieces submitted over the years made for some very fine readalouds. I can only imagine a wealth of examples would emerge from Saragun Springs & environs.
Thanks again.
Geraint
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