Author: Avellina Balestri
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A Slytherin Situation: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 1
BY SARAH LEVESQUE “In the meantime, do you want to go back down to Slytherin to sleep, since you obviously can’t sleep in Gryffindor?” Read more
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Brady the Worm: A Lenten Fable
BY JAMES MICHAEL GILL “This is what it feels like to be who I am,” he sang. “I gave up my dirt and now the sky is my home!” Read more
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Easter in My Landscape: Celtic Reflections on the Season
BY ELIZABETH ROPER The Celtic Saints were drawn to the edges of civilisation and the edges of the land, to feel close to God. I understand why. Read more
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Stars
BY SHANNON LISE JOHNSON We saw our hope and watched it go, into the dark eternal cold, and the only things that didn’t fall were the cold, silver stars. Read more
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The Half-Blood Princess: A Harry Potter Story
“A half-blood is someone of both muggle and magical parentage. I am a half-blood, and if my memory serves me correctly, you are also a half-blood by descent.” Read more
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Holy Communion
BY BROTHER RICHARD OFM The seeming silence of creation is a dwelling in the deep Eucharistic mystery of reality itself. Read more
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Soaring and Epic: Magical Movie Scores to Inspire the Imagination
BY MARY-FAUSTINA Music is like the heartbeats, voices and emotions that give life to my vague, skeletal-like thoughts, which eventually become stories. Read more
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What the Donkey Saw
BY THOMAS LARK “He must be the Messiah. Only God could do and say all the wonderful things this Carpenter has done.” Read more
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Regeneration of the Soul: The Liturgy and the Mystery of Resurrection
BY JONATHAN CULBREATH Every mystery of the Faith which we celebrate throughout the whole year is directed and ordered to the Resurrection. Read more
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Saint Brigid, the Mary of Erin (525 A.D.)
By Ronnie Smith Word Count: 191 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A poem of St. Bridget The shrine of this island was forest until torched by faith that won’t expire a flame thrown from standing stones festive as an ancient dancing yew Your tale of the Gael would groom furrows in lands where Read more
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Blood and Roses: A Beauty and the Beast Serial – Chapter 2: The Beast’s Story
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “Do not consider yourself a prisoner here…but as a guest. You are free to go anywhere you wish in this castle or upon this estate.” Read more
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Inherit the Earth: A Planet of the Apes Story
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Perhaps their Christ has an ape’s face, and even I might call that human a brother in my heart. We are both brothers in suffering. Read more
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Death and the Lion: A Crossover Serial – Chapter 5: Tardy Explanation
A shout from the Doctor broke the silence and startled everyone. He proceeded to confirm everyone’s suspicions that he was insane when he began running around the room like a crazy man, then hugged Nico and kissed his cheeks. Nico growled at the contact, though his heart skipped a beat. “That was better than I Read more
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An Aluminium Walking Stick on Calvary
By Lawrence “Mack” Hall Word Count: 92 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: An old woman knows it will not be long before she can lay down her cane… An aluminum clank walking stick clank is Its own clank cross to bear clank an aged Woman climbing clank Calvary again Clank burdened with her Read more
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Blood and Roses: A Beauty and the Beast Serial – Chapter 1: Gaston’s Story
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “Listen to me, Gaston, listen! He’s not an animal…he’s a man, with a mind and heart and immortal soul like you and I!” Read more
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Uncertainties: A Game of Thrones Story
BY VIOLET JAMES “You’re very sure of everything, aren’t you? What’s right, what’s wrong…who’s the queen, who’s the usurper.” Read more
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Death and the Lion: A Crossover Serial – Chapter 4: Demigod Time
By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 31845 Rating: PG for scary situations Summary: Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, is used to being alone, until one day a girl with auburn hair waltzes into his life… A few days later, Nico was walking near the cemetary yet again, wondering if the Pevensies Read more
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Upon Seeing a Shrew
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 80 Rating: G Summary: A poem about a minuscule creature. No, no, not your teacher of high-school maths But an animal so tiny it doesn’t belong In this harsh world; rather in a fairyland To live among our childhood imaginings With spectacles upon its elegant nose And tiny, delicate, artistic Read more
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The First Christmas: A Harry Potter Story
“Mum is always giving me Petunia´s old caps and scarves and they are all pink and frilly…Now I have my own cap and it isn’t pink. Thank you!” Read more
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The Master Goldsmith: A Lord of the Rings Story
BY VANESSA PARRY My shop has been linked with the ruling house of Gondor for generations; that being the Steward’s House of course. Read more