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One With the Storm

Stupid. That's all I can think. Stupid. Swallowing my anger, I close my eyes and try to breathe a moment. In the distance, I can hear the religious chanting from…

The Graverobber

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The graverobber leaned on his shovel and sighed. His breath went forth as a white cloud that December morning, and it seemed all the weariness of his scoured soul was…

The Thieves’ Bazar

A shrouded figure rode through the thieves' bazaar, the drooping tassels of his grey covering the same dark shade of his charcoal steed. His shadow moved through the lamplight, passing…

Run

On the third day of my journey, I saw one. There are few pathways in those woods, and I had to climb over a knobby mound of raised roots where…

A Dream of Mine I Fear

I sat beside a mighty stonewhere little moss had grownand in its shadow felt a chillthat haunts me this day stillFor I had stopped to picnic thereand breathe the open…

The Silence of Space

The engine stalled, and for a few, breathless moments, the silence of space invaded the little shuttle. The momentum pressed us forward, and we drifted through the quiet, watchful stars.…

Dear Lord, From Lars

My Lord, I thought perhaps you were coming. Perhaps you still are. You may be waylaid. You may, I can foresee, be harried with more pressing concerns. Or you might…

But One

All time begins with a sighfor what's begun must soon die.All life begins with a grin;how quick to follow is sin. I was laughing when the port was poured, and…

A New Night

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There shines a light beyond my sighta pale and rising moon, and in four years, when knowledge sears, we'll know the time is soon. No soul can fix the lunatics,…

The Rose

The three of us were on our way to the Rose a little before nightfall. We took the wisewoman's words sacredly, and left as soon as we could, though it…