“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 16. Blurb & other Episodes Phytotoxins quickly ravaged sturdy beings; elements that killed grooms, horses and fauna – unwitting victims. Wood absorbed deadly compounds into xylem liquid; mirroring necrotic yellowing of jaundice. Zoopery? Glossary: Phytotoxins plant poisons Xylem plant tissue Necrotic pertaining to the death of tissue in response to disease … Continue reading
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
