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    The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens
    The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens
    The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens
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    The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens

    By Jay Rayl

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    A grave marker in itself can tell quite a tale.

    But when the final date of a woman purportedly over one hundred and fifty years old has yet to be carved into the stone, there is indeed quite a story to be told.

    The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens tells of precocious seven-year-old twins, who, on Halloween of all nights, discover the most incredible treat anyone could ever hope to uncover. And such will prove to be just the beginning of something no one could ever possibly imagine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJay Rayl
    Release dateJan 22, 2014
    ISBN9781311579003
    The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens
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    Jay Rayl

    Besides an author of novels, short stories and poetry, Jay Allen Rayl has enjoyed working as an amateur filmmaker, in the theater as an actor and stage director of dramas, comedies and musicals, as well as an award-winning photographer and artist.His short feature From Another Dream was screened at the Orange County Amateur Film-makers Showcase in 1975.Prior to that, he enjoyed performing character roles in college productions and then in community theater, where he went on to direct such shows as Blithe Spirit, The Man Who Came To Dinner, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma and Camelot.His literary works can be sampled and purchased at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords. Some of those titles include Raising Lazarus, Kilroy Was Here, The Minerva Vendettas and The Evening Meal.When not engaged in painting, photography or writing, the author enjoys the diversion of sitting down at the piano with a go at Chopin or Rachmaninov, or simply picking up his classical guitar and playing the likes of Tarrega or Ponce.But literature continues to be his primary focus.Currently, he is working on a collection of miniatures under the title of The Penny Epics, which can be enjoyed on his website at JayRayl.comTitles include:The Girl With The Flaxen Hair- A novelKilroy Was Here!- A novelThe Evening Meal- A short storyThe Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens- A short storyA Love Affair So Late In Life- A short storyMarevedova And The Size-Nine Enigma- A short storyUnwriting The Chisel'd Script- A short storyThe Minerva Vendettas- A short story

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      The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens - Jay Rayl

      . . . they each enjoyed the same sensations, which the spell of the old house unmistakably offered.

      ‘Now it was then, and only then, when the children had been drawn to the simple magic of the room's enchantment, that Jill suddenly noticed through the parlor's far archway a small warm light deep within the old house. She calmly took the hand of her brother and instinctively he turned towards the small golden light himself. Its slight movement told them immediately that such a dance could no doubt be nothing other than the unsettled flicker of a single candle.

      And as the two peered deeper into that adjacent room, they could now distinctly make out the dim figure of a small woman standing directly behind the candle’s glow.

      And, as if entranced herself, the small woman looked up at the two of them and calmly beckoned both to come within.’

      And years later, even as they were two old people who, for all the logic . . .

      The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens

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      The Sensibility Of The Silly Sevens

      They were seven and silly still,

      Brother Jack and twin sister Jill.

      And though ever separate by ten minutes time,

      They were ever bound by a nursery rhyme.

      The naming of a child is somewhat akin to the act of laying in a course to the farthest star.

      And in the naming of twins, well, it is not unlike the charting of that daunting journey both there, and back again.

      For in the naming of twins, alas and alack, such decisions can set each one upon a distinct and unique path in their lives or, more often than not,

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