Author: Avellina Balestri
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Star-Crossed on the Moors: A Movie Review of “Lorna Doone”
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI In essence, no one in Lorna Doone is portrayed as being completely evil. It is a movie extolling the goodness within every person. Read more
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Sacred Chalice, Blooming Staff: The Legend of the Glastonbury Thorn
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “Joseph of Arimathea,” the heavenly visitor addressed him, “cross thou over to Britain and preach the glad tidings.” Read more
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Once Upon a Dream: A Magical Disney Movie Montage
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Perhaps, in some subtle way, these “childhood epics” truly defined who we would grow up to be. They have a very real magic about them. Read more
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Testament: A Star Trek Serial – Chapter 26
BY M.C. PEHRSON “Simon and T’Prinka are in the care of Yanash. He holds all power over life and death.” Read more
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People of the Past Pod-casts, with Hope Rachael
By Keturah Lamb Word Count: 987 Rating: G Summary: A podcast from the future with a man from the past. People of the Past Pod-casts, with Hope Rachael Learn about my father’s and my work as we interview people of the past. Date: August 28, 2020 Subject: Private Zechariah Adams. Pod-cast: TTTD #34 “What Have… Read more
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Edith: A Stark Trek Story
“The overriding sense from Edith’s diaries was that it was not fair. Not fair that the wealthy lived in their ivory towers while the poor suffered and died.” Read more
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Love is Like a Folded Letter: A Star Trek Story
By Aconitum-Napellus Word Count: 2284 Rating: PG Summary: A romance about Spock and Christine Chapel. It’s a soft thing, this love, like a letter that’s been read a hundred times. It’s funny how you can love someone for so many years without change. A thousand years, it seems. To the end of time, and since before… Read more
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Christmas in Cokeworth: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 1: Pretty Little Snowflake
“I know you hate being here almost as much as I hate having you, but all the same…I’ve discovered that I don’t hate you. Not in the strict definition of the word at least.” Read more
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Her Fantasy: A Review of the Movie “Austenland”
BY HANNAH VINCENT From a young age, Jane Hayes has been completely absorbed and fascinated by all things Austen. Read more
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Advent Sacrifice
BY SHANNON LISE JOHNSON All the little houses hold a memory of some celestial babyhood that lingers awkwardly. Read more
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Testament: A Star Trek Serial – Chapter 25
BY M.C. PEHRSON “A priest effects a change to Living Water through the words and the power of Yanash. But we are not priests.” Read more
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The Industrial Life
“Clanging, clanging evermore The assembly line is right on time As children scurry through the fog Of cotton fibers in the air.” Read more
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A Light to the World: The Call Heard and Answered
BY ANNE MARIE GAZZOLO Aragorn’s final words to Arwen convey tremendous hope, especially profound for the pre-Christian time in which he speaks them. Read more
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A Period of Drama and Determination
By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 2418 Rating: PG Summary: A story of the Regency era and troubles for men. Everyone knows that a woman with a large fortune is in need of a man to manage it. Or, in some cases, to use it, if the woman turns out to be a better… Read more
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Shining Tears
By Lyn Wilson Word Count: 202 Rating: G Summary: An original poem by Lyn Bennett Wilson Have you found the place where dreams go to die? Where people exist, living on fear? It is your beginning not your end, find wings to fly Look behind you, for the map home is your shining tears Watch the… Read more
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The Soulless Swordsman: A Meditation on the Student of Prague.
BY ISABELLA SUMMITT My sword, my honor, and my hunger — when I had bartered away everything else, these were all I had left. Read more
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To Be a Pilgrim: Thanksgiving as a Pilgrimage
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI The Pilgrims journey to the New World truly lent life to the allegory Pilgrim’s Progress by the Puritan author, John Bunyan. Read more
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How To Speak to Soldiers: A Translation from Charles Péguy’s “Jean D’Arc”
BY CHARLES PEGUY, TRANSLATED BY ANDREW JOHN LOMAS “You imagine, Joan, that everyone is as pious, as compassionate, as good as you. This is a grave mistake. If you only knew what life is really like.” Read more
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The Lies We Tell: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 7: The Beginning
By Jessica Beaubien (alias Niaf) Word Count: 27542 Rating: PG for moments of peril Summary: The alternate account of the Chamber of Secrets seen through Snape’s eyes. Severus tried to push himself away from thoughts of the last month. Since those first few days, they had fallen into something of a routine. He had found… Read more
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Freedom: A Catholic Analysis of the Trials and Triumphs of William Wallace in “Braveheart”
BY MARY FRANCES JOHNSON We prove whether or not we are truly free when we have to make decisions about good and evil. Read more