A Work of the Mind

This next posting should be updated daily, and is for the exercise of my brain through writing and remembering small facts from each day. This story may take unexpected turns, but it is ultimately for the recovery of my brain after a brain injury. It is to be a complete work of fiction on a forgotten era of human life.

I have recently found a writing that was translated from the year 411. This year, a Conference of Carthage took place. This was a debate between the Donatists and the Catholics. I will attempt to build a storyline around Carthage, possibly this event, but with as many truthful events as possible surrounding my fictitious figures.

Within the walls of the small garden, a brown rat scampered back and forth, gathering wheat kernels from the ragged hole she had chewed in the wheat sack that lay discarded in the weed-infested garden. From the walls of the garden issued the cry of a warbler in their shy, throaty notes. The sea breezes floated in and touched the olive trees’ huge, unpruned crown and quietly passed over a sleeping form on the bench near the gate.

From outside the gate issued noises of a busy Mediterranean city, Carthage. Wheels of carts on cobbled streets, shouts of men at impudent animals, and the distant din of a market.

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