Accusal
This is the transcript of Jean Higgins’ final statement to the court, following the jury’s verdict of “guilty”: “Guilty? Am I guilty? Am I not an innocent man? I recognize […]
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Accomplice
Believe in this, my accomplice, For crime do we commit of consequence, We know no music but the serpent’s hiss, No lustre, lust or craving not monstrous. We must to […]
Accolade
The king’s great sword descended. It touched the embroidered shoulder of Bedevere’s jerkin, rose above his handsome head, and fell, in a regal crescent, to the other shoulder. The sword […]
Acaudal
I am not quite unique. There have been a rash of princes turned to frogs in these last few years; not even by the same witch. This punishment stretches across […]
Acanthoid
He came to at the bottom of a dry gulch. The sunlight woke him by piercing through his eyelids, reflected off the crumbled fragments of shale. He spat the dirt […]
Pierce Nahigyan 