Adorable
The bear was not the tidiest of maids. He was a fair hand at dusting, with the duster clasped firmly in his teeth, and he never let anything remain on […]
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Adonis
Of Adonis, who is called Thammuz, this tale is often told. The goddess of passion Aphrodite, spying Adonis as a babe in Araby, was so entranced by his beauty that […]
Administer
I gasp for breath in this rough air, so unlike the salted sea. I sit, gasping, tied to the earth, this wooden chair, where nothing stinks of brine, nothing rushes […]
Admeasure
Long after he’d grown inured to the rotting flesh atop him, when the daylight crawled back out of the gray hole it had been cowering in, the dogs came. The […]
Ad libitum
Legend was, before the chain, in the time before time, there were two suns eternally on the horizon. But such is legend that it defies explanation. The lion yawned and […]
Pierce Nahigyan 