[This is just a snippet I wrote trying to get a feel for the world. It won't occur in the actual story, but something like it might.] ...

Like David I found my weapons on the battlefield, repelling the invaders of our golden hoard. They swarmed, and clamouring, massed for t...

There was an open door just past the cabinet. She darted into the room and took a deep breath. On the table just in front of her was a plat...

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It was winter.   Your eyes were closed each time I came. I'd sit and talk   not knowing if you heard. It felt like the same things...

Sea-bound, land-locked, ringed by high cathedral wall. Journey's end and pilgrims' rest: Saint Andrew's bones make travellers...

(with apologies to Cole Porter) Times have changed and we've often rewound the clock since historians got a shock when Belzoni smas...