The Ekron Initiative: Memo 20
Part of an ongoing web serial perhaps inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Unless otherwise noted, “the Ex-CEO” refers to God, “the opposition” to the side of the angels, and so on. Read the previous…
Year: 2023
A Basket of Bread and Roses
Elizabeth filled her basket with whatever bread she could find. She just hoped she wouldn’t be seen by members of the court. While her husband shared her desire and passion for helping the poor, she…
The King and His Faith
By Elliott Malik On King Charles III's birthday, a piece from the Fellowship & Fairydust issue Happy & Glorious: A Royal Celebration, reflecting on the king's coronation in 2023 and Britain's monarchy history. An investigation…
Alan Moore’s Utopia, Dystopia, and Apocalypse: Part 1
Much thanks to Brenton Dickieson and Sørina Higgins, for inspiring and encouraging this piece. Speculative fiction (fantasy, horror, science fiction, etc.) or spec fic has experienced many changes in the last generation. An especially shocking change for…
The Ekron Initiative: Memo 19
Part of an ongoing web serial perhaps inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Unless otherwise noted, “the Ex-CEO” refers to God, “the opposition” to the side of the angels, and so on. Read the previous installment…
To Play with the Angels
The Latin poet Catullus, contradicting the mythology that did not want the union between Helen and Paris to be fruitful, surprisingly called adultery a “fruitful seed.” It will be difficult to find in literature a…
The Philosophy of Dostoevsky Chapter 4: If God Does Not Exist, Everything is Permitted
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. In The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov’s philosophical and theological ideas are complex and develop in the course of the novel. However, near…
Guy Fawkes, Anti-Popery and the Lewes Bonfires
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,I know of no reasonWhy the Gunpowder TreasonShould ever be forgot.Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intentTo blow up the King and Parli’ment.Three-score barrels of powder…
The Ekron Initiative: Memo 18
Part of an ongoing web serial perhaps inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Unless otherwise noted, “the Ex-CEO” refers to God, “the opposition” to the side of the angels, and so on. Read the previous installment…
My Crown I Gave Up for You
You know that it could have been you there on the throne. Merlin sighed and looked at the window. Halfway through the coronation, he had known something infernal had entered the courtyard. The proceedings had…