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2 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai
Meet “Wardiya”... Her Assyrian name means: “the beautiful flower.” About the “Women of the First Tribe collection - " What if the indigenous people of Africa, Asia, India and all the Americas share a common ancestry in the very distant past? In ot...
24 Oct 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Bucketlist05
I have always been fascinated with the creativity of artists. In my own definition, people who can express the unexplainable, unthinkable and unimaginable, make it all visible, seem so simple and approvable. Take famous painters and musicians for in...
19 Oct 2023 2 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
In a world full of incredible stories dominated by the likes of Game of Thrones and Hunger Games, it may seem difficult to come across a story that is both excellent in terms of its craft and Christian in its values, but Crux Publications has discove...
7 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Writersedge
It had been five long and somber days since the passing of King Julian, leaving the kingdom of Osnua shrouded in grief. The impending coronation of his successor, Prince James, was set to take place following the funeral rites. Osnua, a prosperous re...
5 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Jay Lonnquist
First there came a caressing vanguard: a wavy lap unceasing. Pressing and swishing bitumen-swells against the flotilla’s restive, salt-discoloured hulls. These waves grew measurably choppier, as the false-dawn born of bright Sufa and its obscene ho...
29 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
It is known that after the Paper God had abandoned the Here for the Otherwhere. Its unutterable consort, Sufa the Braided, descended into a maelstrom of horror and unbalance. Shedding tears of salt a thousand-fold more caustic than the anguish of any...
21 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
He turns from his listless sea-gazing and peers at Pyna, who perches, still as statuary. Her eyes glistening like chips of cracked opal, wandering some unknowable middle-distance. “Do you ever speak, plainly.” Plain is not What Was Proffered. Someth...
17 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Her presence is silent and opaque. A secret place. A piece of porcelain penetralia. A puzzle-box, gazing meditatively out over the sloshing, nighted sea. Umin regards Pyna for a wordless moment, before turning to peer out again into endless, lightl...
9 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Twenty-six bells, since the pair had boarded Meshmin’s flagship undergalley. Umin stood, rubbing fingers into weary, purpled eye-sockets and pressing tired temples. He is densely shrouded against the tacky salt-dew and chill, in a sombre sea-robe. ...
6 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The Shir is a beast of burden. In their youth they are diminutive, shapeless fleshy blossom-forms, drifting and filtering the lightless and grim under-flows of the Great Lower Sea. It is in this still unformed, latter quarter of their youth that they...
