Christmas Presence
~ by Patrick W. Kavanagh At Christmas time it's sad to be away from so many of the people that I love. No matter where I am, I will be far from those whom I…
Month: January 2018
The Crossing of Christopher: A Golden Legend
There once lived a man named Darrick, with strong arms and bulging muscles, a smith by trade, accustomed to hammering down metal and bending it to his will. In the village, he was renowned…
Last Sunday After Pentecost
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 124 Rating: G Summary: A poem of the triumph of the season of Advent over winter. A calling-crow-cold sky ceilings the world Lowering the horizon to itself, All silvery and…
Christmas in Cokeworth: A Harry Potter Serial – Chapter 8: The Snow It Melts the Soonest
By Avellina Balestri (alias Rosaria Marie) Word Count: 29645 Rating: PG for brief moments of peril and some thematic elements Summary: Harry and Snape spend Christmas together and come to understand one another a little…
The Enfield Report
~ by Sarah Levesque [Newscast at the Second Meeting House of the First Church of Christ, Enfield, Massachusetts] ELDRIDGE: Hello, I’m Francis Eldridge from HIST News. Today, July 8th, 1741, I’m standing in front of…
Hermione: A Harry Potter Poem
You're the one who always stood. Together we messed up everything. The polyjuice potion made you a beautiful kitten. All the spells that hardly anyone remembered, They all were at your finger-tips. You’re so intelligent,…
When We Were Gone Astray: A Sense and Sensibility Story
Dedicated to the memory of Alan Rickman (1946-2016) Christmas Eve parties had always been enjoyable for Marianne Dashwood in past years. All the color, the excitement, and gay vitality of it all, the clever…
That Arduous Love Affair: Sir John Betjeman and the Gift of Faith
It was Christmas when my uncle introduced me to him. His poetry has echoed off the walls of my room since then, and his words have rushed in my defence when I have been in…
Cherry Blossom and Little Wolf: An Anime Story
By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 2479 Rating: G Summary: A fairy tale retold starring the characters from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. Sakura glanced at her father. “What do you mean, you made a deal with him?” Her…
Wishes: A Harry Potter Story
Sometimes, just sometimes, Petunia let herself look into Harry’s eyes, because there she saw Lily, and through Lily she saw her father, and something of her mother, and little glimpses of her grandparents, all of…