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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Able
Portnoy was not in the best shape to climb a mountain. Frankly, he didn’t think he was able, but he’d packed a lunch. So, more or less, he’d made up […]
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 […]
Ablation
It was a spot of bad luck that Johann Strauss, the glacier (no relation to the German composer, glaciers being generally older than most Germans), hadn’t joined his fellow ice […]
Ablactation
While his brothers went to the big sow for their fourteenth daily ablactation, the small piglet wandered out of the barn and to the far side of the farm, where […]
Pierce Nahigyan 