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LE DANSE MACABRE • by Jens Rushing
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The guests gathered at Dismal House. It was time to dance the Macabre. It was a very old dance, and a great favorite among that set.
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“I am infinitely grateful to you, my friends, for gathering here on the occasion of my expiration,” said the Marquis. He was properly aged, amply wattled, brandy-complected. Lace overflowed from [...]
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LOSING GRANDMA • by AJ Brown 16 Comments
Though she had been dead for years she never left. It was evident in the way the house felt when you walked in the front door. The smell of cinnamon in the kitchen and roses in the bathroom. It was her. Always her.
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Grandma died in 1998 but she stayed home. Though she was in the [...]
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED • by Kevin Shamel 29 Comments
I try to be polite to missionaries.
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I grew up in a small town dominated by a major religion. We were all so used to roaming pairs of suited missionaries, that if they’d have suddenly stopped riding by on their bikes or if countless doorbells fell silent, all of us unsaved would have thought that the [...]
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THE VIEW FROM OLYMPUS • by Sarah Hilary 57 Comments
When they decided old Nye was no longer capable of living alone, they offered him a ‘nice room in a lovely home’. He chose a park bench at the top of Primrose Hill.
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Not long after that, he met up with Vanessa. “Hello, you old rogue,” she said.
“Nessa, you beauty!”
She shuffled onto the bench at his [...]
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THE GALLERY OF ILLUSIONS • by Brian Dolton 8 Comments
Ganpoche sat quietly in the middle of the Gallery. Above him, Miller’s vast “Rainbow Dragon” arched, its scales shifting with infinite subtlety through every colour imaginable. At the far end of the Gallery, there was Dao Chen’s “Plum Blossom Waterfall”, tumbling in slow and infinite silence. Here, Woomaralla’s “Birthing Man” stood on a plinth, his [...]
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