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Last Sunday After Pentecost
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
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Christmas in Cokeworth: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 8: The Snow It Melts the Soonest
“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…”
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The Enfield Report
“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…
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Hermione: A Harry Potter Poem
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.
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When We Were Gone Astray: A Sense and Sensibility Story
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “She deserves you,” he admitted quietly. “You’re the very best sort of second best there is.”
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That Arduous Love Affair: Sir John Betjeman and the Gift of Faith
BY KARL GUSTEL WARNBERG Even though he failed at Divinity, his legacy has left us with undeniably rich insights into the gift of faith.
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Cherry Blossom and Little Wolf: An Anime Story
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
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Wishes: A Harry Potter Story
BY ACONITUM-NAPELLUS She would look at her hands and wonder why her blood and her bones had been spared that freakish abnormality.
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Tolkien and His Friends
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”.
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As a Hobbit Dear: A Lord of the Rings Serial – Chapter 1: The End of All Things
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.”
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Why Do We Write?
BY LAWRENCE “MACK” HALL If we build art in love, not for ourselves, but for all others, we live beyond all time.
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One More Dance
BY STUART S. LAING “Och lassie, dinnae fash yourself none about the whys and wherefores. You wanted to be eighteen again. Aye?
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Finrod Finds Men: A Silmarillion Story
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,
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False Spring
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
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Christmas in Cokeworth: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 7: The Running of the Deer
“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.”
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Broth of Venom: A Harry Potter Story
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “Why…must they always…torture me? They…they want to see my…reaction…and I can’t control it…anymore…”
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Testament: A Star Trek Serial – Chapter 31
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.”
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Submissions Wanted
Our Spring Issue is going to be based on C.S. Lewis’ works! These include (but are by no means limited to) the following: The Chronicles of Narnia, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Space Trilogy, Till We Have Faces, etc. We are looking for everything including biographies, explanations, fanfiction, memoirs, poetry, reviews, speculation, theories, and more. This
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A New Dawn of Freedom
A NEW DAWN OF FREEDOM By Lawrence Hall Word count: 83 Rating: G Summary: The poet dedicates the New Year to Christian virtues, rather than the old Pagan ones. A new dawn of freedom? May it be so Even in this artificial shift of time According to those calendars and clocks Who still attribute virtues
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Silent Night: An American Girl Story
“I first came to Belgium to fight in the last war. What happened that first Christmas was so extraordinary that I’ll never forget it.”