Abstemious
Reverend Placid was a credit to his profession. Seldom, since the establishment of his back-country Delaware parish, had there been a man of the Book so gentle, and so kind. […]
Category Archives: history
Abrasion
On the Colossus of Rhodes there was a deep and multi-laced abrasion, the scored imprint on its inner ankle that led to many tales, and one must have been truth […]
Above
There is, above you, a slowly turning diadem. Don’t look up. It has come from a place once referred to in its native tongue as the bootleg ballet of the […]
Aboutface
Early Sunday morning, the Pony Express was given the sack. Their services were no longer required, owing to the ubiquity of the new United States Postal Service, and telegrams – […]
Abnormal
Captain Henry Mallory rubbed his thick moustache, whilst a thick furrow parted his saxon brow. “Eleanor,” he called his secretary, “I must have the name of that young man.” Eleanor […]
Pierce Nahigyan 