Slip in Time: Chapter 10
Charms with Professor Flitwick was a little bit different. They spent the whole class taking notes and simply practising wand gestures until the bell sounded for lunch. Harry was disappointed that they didn't get to…
Year: 2019
The Best Robe – A Star Trek Story: Chapter 10
~ By Laura Cynthia Chambers McCoy awoke with a snort. Eyes popping open, he squinted and rubbed the back of his neck, sore from lying on the couch. “Computer, what fool time is it?” he…
Circular Horizon – Prologue
This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to…
Muffins and Moonflowers: A Harry Potter Story
From the first year Severus Snape taught Luna Lovegood in Potions Class, she was always getting on his nerves by being unfailingly cloudy in the head. She lived in a dream world, he decided, and…
Angelic Beings: The Ainur and Maiar
The Ainur The Ainur of Tolkien’s Legendarium were beings of spiritual nature who, actually, played the most important role in the forming of the World after Ilúvatar. But their understanding is rather ambiguous. The Ainulindalë…
The Scars of Our Lady of Czestochowa
~by Lawrence "Mack" Hall Upon the Luminous Mountain a bell Calls all of us to Our Lady’s wounded Heart She looks at us with sorrow in her eyes Her scars are like the tears that…
Franco Zeffirelli: A Life on Screen, Stage, and in Service of Christ
When the great Italian director of screen and stage, Franco Zeffirelli, passed away on June 15, 2019, obituaries and tributes to the man primarily focused on his 1968 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo &…
Night and Light
~by Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Merida slowly peeked around the tree. There, lying on the ground and moaning in pain was a white dragon. Merida was ready to draw her bow, just in case,…
Beyond the Shire: Memories of Reading “The Lord of the Rings”
The climb used to seem dangerous to reach the correct tier of the waterfall, the best one for reading, especially reading Tolkien. Safe there from the rest of the world, ready to be absorbed into…
Interpretation
~by Ana Lisa de Jong I saw your face and you could have been the same age. Your eyes looked like mine, except for the cares they revealed, (more…)