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Aeg: A Crack at the Light

Aeg: A Crack at the Light

"It's time. I'm getting out of here." Aeg stood up, pushed away the fluff from around him, and turned to the window. Shelli stared at him in shock, frozen in place. "Why now? Its about to begin!" "Its the perfect time. They'll never see me going." Outside, the hollow...

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The Unknown Dark & the Naming of the First King

The Unknown Dark & the Naming of the First King

Winifred eased herself down onto a pillowed bench. More like collapsed, she thought, biting back a gasp. She was heavily pregnant, and exhausted from being on her feet all day, wearing the heavy brocade, silk cloaks, and stiff silver crown. She had a half hour to...

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Once Upon an End: How the Seeker found a new name

Once Upon an End: How the Seeker found a new name

He had reached the End of the world… and even come back from it. There he had expected to find monsters with torturous tentacles splayed on cliffs, or perhaps bleak beasts of shadow that filled the horizon with occult mists, or perhaps a spiralling hole into heaven’s emptiness. But he didn’t find that.

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Sitting in a quiet room | Writing exercise

Sitting in a quiet room | Writing exercise

It's a weird sense. A strange sense. Walking into a silent room, a silent house, surrounding by a silent town. Wrapped in quiet fields. No internet. None of the ADHD hum and click and swish and swipe of a network, or of social media. No notifications. Sitting down on...

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Fra Angelico & the Angelic Bread

Fra Angelico & the Angelic Bread

Fra Angelico is taken through an angelic doorway to bake bread for a community of starving friars. He doesn’t realize who it is he’s helping until later.

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