BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Fight on, even though the days grow darker yet, and know that the Great Battle has already been won by Christ the King. Read more

“Jack, Jack! The castle is under attack from the villagers, and the master won’t budge from the West Wing! What should we do?” Read more

By Linda M. Crate Word Count: 115 Rating: G Summary: A poem of a Christmas with no snow. it doesn’t feel festive nor right that Christmas is coming and there is no psalm of white snow lilting across the land promising a new hope and redemption for the end of one year and a chorus Read more

By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 3331 Rating: G Summary: Queen Scheherazade has a mission for young Ananse, a hero in training, but can he complete it? “Uncle Remus! Aunt Nancy! I’m home!” called out Henry right before slamming the door behind him. A dark-skinned woman in her forties appeared around the corner. “Henry Charles Anderson! How Read more

BY AMANDA PIZZOLATTO “I thought I had lost you for good when you fainted there on Mount Doom. They, they weren’t sure if you were going to make it.” Read more

By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 124 Rating: G Summary: A poem of the triumph of the season of Advent over winter. A calling-crow-cold sky ceilings the world Lowering the horizon to itself, All silvery and grey upon the fields Of pale, exhausted, dry-corn-stalk summer. The earth is tired, the air is cold, the dawn False-promises Read more

“Don’t be such a scardy-cat, Sev! You’ll do fine! Don’t worry…I’m good at this, and if you start to fall, I’ll catch you…” Read more

“He told us all about how sinners were going to Hell. I guess we all believed that already. Then he described it some and told us how the only thing keeping the wicked on this earth and out of Hell was God’s hand, and how He was getting so angry at them he’s liable to… Read more

BY ASHUTOSH JHA ASHUTOSH All the spells that hardly anyone remembered, they all were at your finger-tips. You’re so intelligent, you’re so bold. Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “She deserves you,” he admitted quietly. “You’re the very best sort of second best there is.” Read more

BY KARL GUSTEL WARNBERG Even though he failed at Divinity, his legacy has left us with undeniably rich insights into the gift of faith. Read more

By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 2479 Rating: G Summary: A fairy tale retold starring the characters from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. Sakura glanced at her father. “What do you mean, you made a deal with him?” Her father shrugged. “He seems like a nice fellow, he’s just as lonely as you are. I figured you could do Read more

BY ACONITUM-NAPELLUS She would look at her hands and wonder why her blood and her bones had been spared that freakish abnormality. Read more

BY MARTINA JURICKOVA Through their art they wanted to “re-establish sanity, cleanliness, and the love of real and true beauty in everyone’s breast”. Read more

BY AMANDA PIZZOLATTO “You are not going to lose to this thing,” I said, “do you hear me? You are not going to lose. If you must, look at me as you let go.” Read more

By S. Dorman Word Count: 718 Rating: G Summary: A story set in Tolkien’s Silmarillion. ‘Twas in autumn on the borders of Beleriand when, astride his golden mount, came Finrod Felegund. He was parted from the hunters as they rode far in the land. Trees of the vale were as flames of gold, of crimson, Read more

By Lawrence Hall Word Count: Rating: G Summary: A poem about the “January thaw.” No spring is false when warm, sweet sunlight falls Upon the weathered field and woods and walls And frogs shake off the mud with much to sing While lizards leap and little bees take wing.   No spring is false when Read more

“You will not threaten the boy,” he growled. “He may have a way of working his mouth, and I might have the right to tan his hide for it often enough, but you will not threaten a student under my charge.” Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “Why…must they always…torture me? They…they want to see my…reaction…and I can’t control it…anymore…” Read more

BY M.C. PEHRSON “Tell us how you came to have such faith. Tell us everything just as it happened, just as you remember it.” Read more