And Stones Shall Dance

by David Pickering

It is the last evening of the twentieth century. Elk has been invited to a millennium party at the remote private school he once attended. If he is ever to move on with his life, there are things he needs to find out about his past – things he has long blanked from his memory.

As midnight approaches, Elk clashes with people he thinks he recalls, or doesn’t recall at all, from his troubled teenage. He remembers a private museum, dead terrapins, a sacred pool, a hideous figurine, an opened diary, a fire. He remembers the sweet-natured Avril (letters, poems, shared silences) and he remembers her cousin Augusta (rumours, warnings, witchcraft).

Legend says that it is impossible to count the stones that stand in a circle on the hill overlooking the school grounds. Somehow, their history is his history. But before he can make sense of it all his world will collapse in a chaos of images, numbers and words.

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And Stones Shall Dance