Humanity’s Question
~ by Joel Duncan There’s a force so strong it can break grown men and make them cry as if they’re a dam and the brick work has come loose. When the ground catches me…
Year: 2019
Fruits of Forgiveness: Overcoming Evil with Good
There is nothing like inhumanity to remind us that we are human. Tell yourself all you like that you are a piece of electric meat, a random causation of evolutionary theory, and all sense of…
Lost Time: Chapter 17
By Jocelyne Ross Word Count: 340 Rating: G Summary: While Joyce lies comatose, she relives her life with her husband and family, as they try to wake her up. The next day, at home, Joyce…
Black Dogs and the Wild Hunt
Wisht Hounds and Black Shuck In Greek myth, the goddess Hecate roams the earth on moonless nights with a pack of ghostly, howling dogs. Similarly, the Old French term for the Wilde Jagd is…
The Nightingale and the Rose
~by Clary Fray There was once a beautiful white Rose (there were only white roses at the time) that bloomed one spring morning. She shone above all her sisters, not a single flaw amongst her…
Angel Image: A Phantom of the Opera Story
~ by Stephanie Piro It was late. Where was she? Dallying with Raoul, again? What did she see in him? Was it his blue eyes? His golden hair? His virile features and wealth and title?…
Breathless Horror: Frankenstein and the Monster Within
In Mary Shelley's classic novel, "Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus," Victor Frankenstein wishes to create life using a sewn-up body made from pieces of corpses as the shell. Though Victor manages to actually bring it…
Les Miserables… The Title Says It All
For most of my life I had heard good things about Les Miserables the musical. And I greatly enjoy a good musical. For the last few years I’ve kept a lookout at the library for…
Love of a Father
~ By The Ginger Lightning flashed across the Paris sky, illuminating the dark, stone walls of the cloister of Notre Dame. Thunder echoed off the walls. The wind howled across the stone, sounding like a…