Every last full moon of summer the witch put fresh flowers on his grave, picked from the fields soaked with ash and blood, where the fires had burned, and hope had died…
Author Archives: Jessica Holzhausen
Jousting at Blenheim Palace
Jousting Tournament with the Knights of Middle England, first weekend of May at Blenheim Palace
Riverwalk in Oxford, 2022
Riverwalk along the River Thames in Oxford during the Easter weekend: spring flowers in abundance, the occasional goose and more capsized boats than usual.
Long Covid – When a mild case is not so mild after all
16 March 2020 Covid still seems far away, only few cases reported in the news, Germany is already speaking about lockdown, in the UK it is still business as usual. I wake up with a sore throat and feeling a little bit strange. By afternoon I start coughing. It seems like a weird kind ofContinue reading “Long Covid – When a mild case is not so mild after all”
Bloodlust
The air in the cellar was still full of dust; the builders had just left this afternoon, others would come to pick up the last stones in the morning. Had it not been for the water damage after the last heavy rain, nobody would have ever opened that wall, nobody would have accidentally freed what had been lurking behind for centuries.
Assembly Rooms Bath
Harcourt Arboretum, Oxfordshire
First Love by Jessica Holzhausen
Originally posted on Ephemeral Elegies:
I dreamed again that you were dead. There was a hole in the ground and a coffin, some white flowers – you never liked white – and people I haven’t seen in 20 years. They still look the same. “It is my fault,” I say and my dream-self feels like…
A rainy day on Meadfoot Beach
Deleting Eve by Jessica Holzhausen
Originally posted on literally stories:
My client bought model T17 in April 2027 as a – I quote – ‘customizable sex toy with programmable character traits mimicking the behaviour of a real woman’. Mimicking – that is the code word here! Mimicking! The sex robot the prosecution likes to refer to as ‘Eve’ has never…