O for Oxyblepsia – #atozchallenge

“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 15. Blurb & other Episodes   Oxyblepsia proffers questionable judgement, requiring beholders manifest solid evidence. Ketch tracks lead from a holm upstream, veering Westwards. Deposited xenoliths implicate yachty Zollie, castigating navigational gear.   Glossary: Holm                           island in a river Ketch                           a two-masted, fore-and-aft rigged sailing boat with a mizzenmast stepped forward of … Continue reading

N for Nefarious – #atozchallenge

“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 14. Blurb & other Episodes   Nefarious operators protest. Quayside alibis remove suspects bar three fanatical gamblers united in ketch manoeuvres. Vocal witnesses, demanding justice, call Xander, Yoshi, especially Zollie, lucripetous humgruffins.   Glossary: Humgruffin                 terrible person Ketch                           a two-masted, fore-and-aft rigged sailing boat with a mizzenmast stepped forward of the rudder … Continue reading

M for Mimetic – #atozchallenge

“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 13. Blurb & other Episodes   Mimetic nauticals on punters qualifies as devious. Reasoning suggests they control justifiably useful vessels, whether xebecs, yawls, even zabras. Killicks grant incursive landfalls by hippic farmland.   Glossary: Hippic                         of, like or pertaining to horses Killick                         small anchor or heavy stone used as an anchor Mimetic                       imitative; … Continue reading

L for Lupicide – #atozchallenge

“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 12. Blurb & other Episodes   Lupicide must never obnumbrate probing. Quizzically, Archibald roasts executioners boasting, “Slaying those unwanted vermin, just culled wolves”. Factors divulge xenogenous yearling killings. “Garbed in zabra habilement?”   Glossary: Habiliment                attire Lupicide                      killing of a wolf Obumbrate         … Continue reading

K for Kidney – #atozchallenge

“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 11. Blurb & other Episodes Kidney failure blaming laurel ingestion mirrors, notably, other poisons. “Quixotic reasoning,” deduced Jamila. Except her suspects traditionally cultivated unkempt vegetation with xyris, yaupon, and zebra grass.   Glossary: Quixotic          extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical. Xyris               a genus of flowering plants in the Yellow-eyed-grass family. Yaupon           a holly … Continue reading

J for Jamila – #atozchallenge

“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 10. Blurb & other Episodes   Jamila Knox’s CV lists many non-conformist occupations. Pathology quests reveal sinister truths, undoubtedly venenation. Wielding a xyster, yellowed bones display zarontin injections. Except hematology gainsays fears. Glossary: Hematology                the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the blood and bone marrow as well as of the … Continue reading