Ablegate
The Far East is a strange country, the Pope’s ablegate surmised, for it is not in the Middle, neither is it Near. And, the envoy well knew, those things which […]
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Ablaze
I would tell you of the night the stars set the house ablaze, like great winking cats, eyes wide with the haunted shine, pupil slits but twinkles in the New […]
Abeyance
A sudden stillness. My breath froze in my throat and the harsh northern air whipped and hacked at the back of my tongue. A long swallow. Around me, the bodies […]
Aberrant
An aberrant thing began to grow in Nicole’s mind, blinking and twisted, shapeless as yet but still forming, coalescing, rolling softly until its fingers scratched the delicate peaks of her […]
Abbreviate
Two men were sitting outside a hospital. The first man was an old man, a grandfather many times over. The second man was unknown to him and so he asked […]
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