P for… Prep for Doom – a review

P for… Prep for Doom – a review

  Prepper  –  NOUN  –  chiefly North American A person who believes a catastrophic disaster or emergency is likely to occur in the future and makes active preparations for it, typically by stockpiling food, ammunition, and other supplies:there’s no agreement among preppers about what disaster is most imminent whether you’re a doomsday prepper or simply like to be prepared, … Continue reading →

P for Phytotoxins – #atozchallenge

“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 →