January 2012
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“I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks, ...”
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The Deathbed of Starling Strathmore: Chapter 2
Chapter 2: The Blue Danube There must have been quite a commotion outside my room to have woken me. I could not tell whose voice any of them were because all were mumbles. The door was shut, and the sunlight shone in from the window, like it did every day, had it not rained. It barely rained and in the winter it mostly snowed in the evening through the night. This morning, however, the...
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The Deathbed of Starling Strathmore: Chapter 1
Chapter 1: The Dim Star The purpose of a chantry is to forgive and be forgiven. Matron took us there often to replenish our souls and throw behind our sins, but never forget them. We’d pray for the dead through song, a requiem, to celebrate masses for the founder’s soul. The chantry fed us all these lies about finding peace in the afterlife but I was never even able to find it...
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