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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.”
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Epiphany, Transferred
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 87 Rating: G Summary: A poem digesting what Epiphany would be like today. How, then, does one transfer a holy day? The Magi reschedule their appointments, The camels are re-booked with a penalty, King Herod’s social secretary sighs And jots a note for the distribution list (Holy Innocents will die…
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A London Christmas: A Chronicles of Narnia Serial – Chapter 3
BY SARAH LEVESQUE “Growing up all at once and growing up slowly, then returning… those are completely different.”
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Frodo’s Last Shire Yule: A Lord of the Rings Story
BY ANNE MARIE GAZZOLO “Now, Mr. Frodo dear, don’t you be staying up too late now, as you know they’ll keep you up until all hours when they come.”
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An Avalonian Christmas
By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 3540 Rating: G Summary: Another of Amanda’s Crossover stories. A Quiet Evening Bran Davies let out a breath. Well, here it goes. He was going to step out of this room a mere boy, though he was the son of Arthur, and by the end of the day, he would…
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Christmas in Cokeworth: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 6: To Raise Us from the Grave
“You don’t pick your friends because they can do something for you,” Harry shot back. “You do it because you care about them, and they care about you. That’s it.”
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Freeze and Thaw: A Star Trek Story
BY ACONITUM-NAPELLUS “Judging by the level of darkness, I would guess there are at least ten metres of rather densely packed snow above us,” Spock said calmly.
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Holiday TV Brings Armories, a Cyclops, and the Slaughter of the Awgwas
BY KEVIN MICHAEL DERBY Of course Krull has nothing to do with Christmas, but the same can be said of most holiday specials and programming.
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Testament: A Star Trek Serial – Chapter 30
BY M.C. PEHRSON “An act of God! I give no credence to such things,” Sarek declared. “You are a scientist. There is cause and there is effect.”
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An Asgardian Christmas: A Crossover Story
By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 1721 Rating: G Summary: The Baudelaires, finally safe and happy, celebrate Christmas. Part One: Under the Mistletoe Mistletoe hung from the ceiling at the end of the room while boughs of holly hung from the railings. The Baudelaires entered, their eyes darting from side to side, taking in the whole…
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Ghosts of Christmas Past: A Harry Potter Story
“Severus”, she spoke in a soft, sad voice. “It’s Christmas, and you’ve let hatred for my husband keep you from listening to what my son tried to communicate to you.”
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A London Christmas: A Chronicles of Narnia Serial – Chapter 2
BY SARAH LEVESQUE “Even Father Christmas would have a hard job finding much for presents right now. But we have each other, that’s what’s most important.”
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The Perfect Gift
By Julia Rose Magyar Works Cited: 2102 Rating: G Summary: A little girl’s Christmas Wish leads to an important lesson. It was almost Christmas time in the town of Happy Meadows. The town was in great preparation, decorating shop windows, and hanging wreaths and garlands on their doors. But in one house, a twelve-year-old girl sat…
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On the Feast of St. Stephen: A Reflection on the Paradox of Christmastime
BY KEVIN MICHAEL DERBY Of course, I knew the day after Christmas was the Feast of Stephen, the first martyr whose death is recorded in Acts of the Apostles.