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The Small Stranger – Part Four: Farewell

(Some reader discretion advised.) “Is it over? Can I open my eyes now?” Dolores asked. Continue reading The Small Stranger – Part Four: Farewell

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The Small Stranger – Part Three: Marius

(Reader discretion advised.) Ted opened the door with the chain on, and looked out. A pair of inquiring brown eyes met him, and moustache a good deal bushier than his own. Continue reading The Small Stranger – Part Three: Marius

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The Small Stranger – Part Two: Merowinter

There was a rumble of distant thunder; it was dreadful that such depth of sound, as of an earthquake, should be created by the sky. Dolores pushed open the gate, with its glaring danger sign, and Otto followed her into the field towards the seated figure. It was clearly someone small, a child. Blank fear burned in his cold joints. Continue reading The Small Stranger – Part Two: Merowinter

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Garfield's Find

Garfield Wiles was thirteen, and taking his little sister Eunice into the city to help her buy a Christmas gift for their mother.The lights of the city made the eyes, the windows of the soul, into train windows, and the soul found it difficult to read in the passing changes of illumination. The sky was dark above the lights, and a thin mist was just heavy enough to fall like minute snowflakes.…

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SabbathPosts 2023/12/23

Usually signs in front of churches have very simple messages like “Jesus is Lord” (“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven” Mt 7). But there is a church sign near us which has a refreshing level of biblical specificity; it says: “The peace of Christmas fills the hearts of those who follow…

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/17

Sunbroken drainage took the lateral glaze. Next to the wall a powder oven oversaw den needle waying other than prier dogs.Without… without mill…Josephine stepped up the stool to the lintel, and tacked up the signs of says. Sayser was no sawser, later without liber. She skipped down, pinching and shaking her small hammer in pastorally unobtrusive victory. There they were: the line and cap, the…

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/14

The pin fell down from Glasborough Heights, and in the sand compassed a frame jagged with thorns.Thin ripples knit outward, a magnifying glass close-up of a squarish vinyl. The brother passes vaguely, but on his line, and two sisters further out; in the distance, one who is of unknown connection, but the skid of their progress is clear to the hearing. Streams of measured movement unfulfilled…

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/12

The hand leaves the door before the echo of the knock returns. Barbed wire and holly leaf shapes, she runs her fingers down crackling through them at the doorpost, a sheaf of serpents filling up a glove.An answer over the wall, dangles in the night, and follows the knock around the corner. The seeker spreads her wrist, leaves her unassuming gift at the threshold, and backs against a pillar. The…

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WrittenOOM #GarfieldWiles 2023/12/20

Garfield Wiles was thirteen, and taking his little sister Eunice into the city to help her buy a Christmas gift for their mother.The lights of the city made the eyes, the windows of the soul, into train windows, and the soul found it difficult to read in the passing changes of illumination. The sky was dark above the lights, and a thin mist was just heavy enough to fall like minute snowflakes.…

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SabbathPosts 2023/12/16

If you really want to be obedient to God’s commandments – have you read them?There’s more than ten. There’s not 613 (could be vastly more or vastly less depending on how you count them, and frankly the 613 list was a stupid way to count them). What matters more than how you count them is that you read them, and obey.They are not just in the Greek Scriptures. They are not just in the writings of…

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/11

Power lines, phone lines, black and quilted, draping cobwebs of unseen endless uses. Under the shadeless net he walked, breathed on his hands. Like distant mountains the towering net moved little above him as he went, except to rock in their dizzy height over his eyes. In a hollow corner between the ends of two walls he found the hole dug, and the trowel by it. He rubbed his hands, shook his…

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/10

Zigzagging ant-laid mazes tiled the slanting wall, up to the jagged crest, as of a wooden crisscrossing wave. The knife edges hanging down laterally under the palate of the serrated crest form sand dollar clustering patterns, and fend off shrugging approaches of the floor.Thin grass, leaving bare the muck and grit, last hairs of a balding head. There was a whistle in the air across the top edges…

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SabbathPosts 2023/12/09

There is a temptation for people to confuse ‘nature’ (the wilderness) with nature music videos – which they watch wistfully on polished screens. If they actually set foot in the wilderness, there’s a likelihood they would set their foot in dung. Let’s say you take a thousand pictures of the wilderness, just looking any which way; then pick out all the nice shots: the flower, the sunset, the…

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/08

In the depths before the face, the darkness black as paint: an archway as in a garden, lit of frozen lightning, bolts as thick as plaited kraken arms.The tiles before this way are blown cornerwise by the strength, horrent scales of a strained and bristling fish, so the stars could peer between, those that ventured close enough below.Those beasts that glided here and there about that lighted gap,…

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM #EssenceMap 2023/12/05

Tywithe Veneer~Deep: 1.37%-3.08%‘sifted surface listen listen’‘dry bubble space, spaces another pressed a meagre spreading sphere cluster’Grain: FE-grey-gry‘gleaning hollows of powdery sprigs’ – ‘slow-motion thrashing in threshing’ Cords~Deep: 56%‘unknown dark long threading through the medium’‘dying avocado’Anagram: oilGrain: FO-grow-grwTundra‘combed medusa corpse ineffective’~ChordsDeep:…

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DailyCreatedOOM #WrittenOOM 2023/12/03

Heshod blew on his hands to warm them. He stood before the grey-brown warped door. Above the earthen wall roared the sky, a thousand more wheels than he could count, every point and line shaking dust and striking dim sparks.Beneath his feet was another door. Another wall stretched out behind his heels, a wall of hard, earth-coloured brick, sticky and stained. Above the top of this wall also…

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SabbathPosts 2023/12/02

Wastefulness is to dishonour God: if there is anything you would sacrifice for God, it means nothing if you would sacrifice the same thing for nothing. “The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.” Pr 12 Unless something is precious to you, you can give nothing precious to God. It is a temptation to confuse greed and desire, and…

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