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Look and At and Me: A Harry Potter Poem
“Ah Lily, Lily, take me in Three words I had to say at the end Look and at and me…”
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Venite Paremus: The Importance of Advent
BY CHRISTOPHER WOODS What this time of preparation does for us is, in short, one of the most beautiful miracles.
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Sharpe: The Rise of a Natural Born Leader
BY GRAEME RESTORICK Sharpe has to work harder than most to earn the respect of both his social ‘betters’ and his ‘peers’.
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I Know How to Play: A Game of Thrones Story
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI They say that war is not a woman’s game. But I know how to play, yes, I can play, play you all, play you all to death.
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The Lies We Tell: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 6: Theme Parks and Potions
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 wondered again what he would do now that it seemed this child had found a way to wiggle into his heart. How wrong he’d been all these years
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A Day on Piccadilly Street
“Terribly sorry!” she gasped, tripping over the hem of someone’s skirt. “Indeed, I hope not. No one should be so sorry when they are distracted by books,” her victim replied.
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Trouble on Deck Five: A Star Trek Story
Unless the spider was highly poisonous he would not destroy it, for Vulcans respected life in all its myriad forms. A common motto of his people read, Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
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The Pirate and the Princess: A Crossover Story
By: Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 2407 Rating: G Summary: Inspired from Braze and How to Train Your Dragon The battle was practically over before it could even start. No one could really compete with the dragons of Berk, especially with Hiccup Haddock the Third as the captain. He walked across the plank to the
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Testament: A Star Trek Serial – Chapter 23
BY M.C. PEHRSON “There were no keys,” the boy insisted against all logic. “I didn’t need one in the tunnel because the doors weren’t locked!”
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The Martial Arts of Marvel
BY IAN T. WILSON In Japanese Martial Arts, there are two central concepts known as the Do and Jutsu. Jutsu means the science or mechanics of martial arts.
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Book Versus Movie: When Bad Movies Tell Good Stories
BY KILLARNEY TRAYNOR Directors, producers, actors, and screenwriters are all storytellers who put their own complexion on stories.
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The Silver Lining
By Stuart S. Laing Word Count: 5237 Rating: PG Summary: Scottish Soldiers tell stories around the Barracks Edinburgh, Scotland 1st November 1746 “Och, we may as well make ourselves comfortable. That rain isn’t going to let up any time soon.” Sergeant Angus MacIan of Edinburgh’s Town Guard gave a slow shake of his grey head as
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Oz vs. Wonderland: A Crossover Drabble
By: Sean Romer Word Count: 188 Rating: G Summary: A description of battle between the inhabitants of Oz and Wonderland. I wonder what an Oz vs. Wonderland grudge match would have been like? When the Hatter’s clock struck eleventeen, the Wicked Witch’s Flying Monkey battalions launched a salvo against the halberdier card troops, smudging their
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The Lies We Tell: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 5: Growing Accustomed
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 could still remember the surprise at the quiet week he’d had with the child. He could still remember that first Friday night when he’d sat at his desk
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An Essay on Evil: Lessons from Life and Literature
BY TIMOTHY MATHER All the selfishness, all the hate, all the spite are of those things that make us aware of our facing the shadows rather than the light.
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A Memoir: Hollywood in Our Backyard
BY LAWRENCE S. HOWE & M.C. PEHRSON Cecil B. DeMille never heard of us or even cared, and in exchange we never gave him cause to worry about competition.
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Testament: A Star Trek Serial – Chapter 22
BY M.C. PEHRSON “Living Water is ordinary water that has been consecrated by a priest and so contains the very essence of God.”
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Always Belonged To You: A Pirates of the CaribbeanStory
By Rachel Atterholt Word Count: 2158 Rating: PG Summary: Will and Elizabeth Turner are only allowed to meet every ten years. Can their love survive? What is it like to love someone? To give something away that you’ve hidden deep inside you so it wouldn’t be broken again? Is loving someone like taking a leap
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The Bride of Frankenstein: A Halloween Classic or a Campy Freak Show?
BY ISABELLA SUMMITT Everything about this movie is halved—in my opinion, most of the good juicy horror moments and the acting.
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The Early Proposal: A Noble Masquerade Story
By Emily Kopf Word Count: 1738 Rating: PG Summary: A fan-fiction based on A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter. Author’s Note: This is a fanfiction based on the novel A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter. It is a historical, Christian romance set in the early 1800s. In a complicated and humorous plot, the two