Beneath the Hallowed Hill (48 page)
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Authors: Theresa Crater
Tags: #mystery, #Eternal Press, #Atlantis, #fantasy, #paranormal, #Theresa Crater, #science fiction, #supernatural, #crystal skull
Anne regarded it for a long moment. “I guess we can’t sell this house.”
“No kidding,” Michael said.
Outside, the sun had risen. Suddenly ravenous, they walked into town and bought pasties at Burns the Bread. They went down to the end of High Street and bought coffee, then sat outside at a table, watching the perfectly ordinary events of a Glastonbury morning unfold around them. A man watered the flower boxes hanging from the second stories of the buildings with a long hose. Pigeons pecked at their feet. Tourists began to mill about. Another store opened its doors.
They returned home to a great jubilation. White Spring gushed, and the pipe from Red Spring, just across the small lane, joined with her mate. Red and white water poured forth for all to drink. People went back to their houses and returned with jugs to fill. Life was returning to normal.
That evening, when the Beltane Fire burned bright in a tall pyramid on top of the Tor and the celebrants danced around it, Michael and Anne walked down to White Spring and watched the water gush from the pipes.
Anne turned to him. “That was some vacation.”
He laughed and took her in his arms.
About the Author:
Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Theresa Crater grew up in the middle of the civil rights movement, an experience that left her believing anything is possible. Theresa has published an Egyptian contemporary fantasy,
Under the Stone Paw
, and several short stories, the most recent of which is
Bringing the Waters in The Aether Age: Helios
. She also published poetry and a baker’s dozen of literary criticism.
Theresa currently teaches writing and literature in Denver, but her first serious job was teaching meditation. Since then, she has poked around western metaphysics, Qabalah, various forms of shamanism, Wicca, and Reiki. She has also been reading about mythology from many cultures. Theresa’s fiction blends myth, metaphysics, and just plain good old adventure.
Theresa lives with her husband, Stephen, an independent Egyptologist who published three books and leads tours to Egypt, and their two cats, in Boulder, Colorado, surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and their wildlife.
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