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Tag Archives: sacrifice

Adduce

08/12/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

The dragon drummed its claws on the rim of the sulphur pit. He sniffed and a spiral of smoke slithered out his snoot. He sighed, and the smoke buffeted Charlemagne. […]

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animals, fear, fire, justice

Acropolis

05/10/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

It was 430 B.C., at night, upon the acropolis. Athena Parthenos, the virgin goddess, admired herself, her aspect carved in solid stone, smooth and fair. In the temple the braziers […]

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gods

Acknowledge

03/11/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

We went up the hill to welcome the dawn, hoping to be purified by the light, the sky’s newborn clouds, and the wind. Rain would have been sweetness itself, but […]

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animals, fear, health, history

Achromatic

02/22/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

I once knew a woman who lived on 22nd Street. She was alone for most of her life. Men had come and gone, and she had loved them sadly in […]

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artifact, memory

Abutment

09/28/2012by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

In building the bridge that would connect the island town of Tiki-Free with the peninsular colony of Tiki-Bagombo, it was discovered, at a disturbingly late stage of the construction, that […]

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artifact, gods, history, mystery, sea

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"All the while I have been forgetting the third of my reasons for remaining so faithful a citizen of the Federation, despite all the lascivious inducements from expatriates to follow them beyond the seas, and all the surly suggestions from patriots that I succumb. It is for the reason which grows out of my medieval but unashamed taste for the bizarre and indelicate, my congenital weakness for comedy of the grosser varieties. The United States, to my eye, is incomparably the greatest show on earth."

- H.L. Mencken, On Being an American, 1922

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