Category: The World
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Storm Point
Between the rain and through the wind, the lightning illuminates the horizon. Low cloud is coming inland covering the Moon yet allowing splintered shards of bright moonlight to shine through. The usual sandy beach completely covered by a swarming mass of murky and cold-and-dark seawater. The jagged rocks, slowly starting to fade to invisibility with…
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The Hippogryphe
Legend has it that a fantastically fast creature exists, somewhere, very well hidden.It’s speed can take it all around the world, not exactly in the blink of an eye, but pretty quickly. It can also use its speed to reach the Moon, if needed. Apparently. The creature? The Hippogryphe. Part horse, part Gryphon (more commonly…
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One Minute Ramble: Why Bother?
I wanted to writeSomethingTo smash the gloomSomethingTo clear the frightAnythingTo erase the doomAnd bring in some light And a voice said to me, why bother? Why bother? I thought. Why bother? Why bother? Because I’ve had enough about this atrocity and that war. This doom and that gloom. This blah and that blah blah. Here…
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The Fat One’s Eyes
There’s a minor constellation in the Southern sky. I’ve mentioned it before, on numerous occasions due to it being named after a mythical creature. The Phoenix. It’s only a small constellation from our point of view, but when thinking of the vastness of the Universe, size tends to be rather deceptive. Subjective. And very misleading.…