Kevin Bettany

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

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“1966 Going Back in Time ” by Kevin Bettany

In 1966 my family lived in an army quarter near Warminster in Wilshire, England. Aged fifteen, during the summer vacation, I traveled home from boarding school in Surrey and was able to get a laboring job on an archeological site which involved the early stage of digging a burial mound. So strenuous was the digging work that my friend and I were forced to sit down to recover. We were told our services were not required on the following day but we could be employed on a dig taking place on Lugershall Castle.Every morning the journey from Warm...

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“The Naming Day” by Kevin Bettany

Submitted to Contest #205

A few weeks ago, on a Saturday afternoon in the beautiful English countryside setting of Devonshire, an event involving about fifty friends and family gathered to mark our latest grandson’s birth. Called a ‘naming day’ it represented a kind of non-Christian christening. Perhaps, partly because I think paganism predates Christianity my son and his partner hoped, like themselves, that everyone would be touched by a deeper and more meaningful experience of creation. Obviously, as infants, we would have been present when our parents had us ei...

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