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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.”
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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.
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Advent Sacrifice
BY SHANNON LISE JOHNSON All the little houses hold a memory of some celestial babyhood that lingers awkwardly.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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
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A Rosary from Jasna Gora
A ROSARY FROM JASNA GORA By Lawrence Hall Word count: 102 Rating: G Summary: A poetic description of a wooden rosary. For, as always, Our Lady of Czestochowa and for Kirk Briggs A little string of wooden gift shop beads Each bead a hymn along the pilgrimage From Nazareth to Bethlehem to—to us Praying
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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The Faithful Servant: A Harry Potter Story
“I was wondering whether you’d be joining us. I must say, I’m rather surprised. I expected you to continue to cower in Dumbledore’s skirts.”
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Testament: A Star Trek Serial – Chapter 24
BY M.C. PEHRSON “Stay on Vulcan? Spock, you’ve already been away too long. I want you both home.”
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An Introduction: A Pride and Prejudice Story
By: Nadia C. Shoshana Word Count: 5068 Rating: G Summary: A mass Jane Austen crossover story. Ballrooms are known to bring the greatest of pleasures or disappointments and certainly the highest expectations from many different quarters in London. A particularly grand ballroom found itself employed for an evening during the height of the season by one
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I Wish You Well: A Harry Potter Story
“You don’t have to believe exactly what they do, no more than all of you Order members have to exactly believe the statute of secrecy should be abolished.”
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You Know Nothing: A Game of Thrones Story
BY AVELLIN BALESTRI They offer me a throne built upon their follies, and my own. For we are all a part of this, all of us have our hands on the same sword hilt.
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Life and Love: A Jane Austen Drabble
By Audrey Elissa Hodson Word Count: 396 Rating: G Summary: A Jane Austen-style short fiction. Dawn crept through the thin linen window hangings. Our rooster ‘twas all but inept, as of late. But not to worry, as the sun was ever the faithful companion, as perhaps it always had been. I did not boast myself a