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Love is a song
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. – Arne Garborg Come sit by my fire, and I will sing you a song, so that you can sing it...
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Burning Mother, hear our prayer
We cannot follow the steps of your dance, Lady. Our hearts tremble at the pattern of your making and unmaking. Burning Mother, hear our prayer. We trust in the shadows of your song, knowing its melody...
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Walking with a bowl
Once upon a time, O Best Beloved, there was a woman with a bowl. It was a wide, round stone bowl, and it was her dearest possession. This was a very once upon a time indeed, and she lived in a hard...
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Prayer of the driven.
Let me never be complete. Let me never be compliant. Let me never be content. Let me never be a person, whole and finished, who is happy to be whole and finished. Let my jagged edges scrape, and my...
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Companion
The power of the companion is this: they walk beside you, for a little while. It is an immense and awe-inspiring power, and one that is hard both to quantify and to notice, except in its absence....
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Let them be afraid
“They’re afraid of rumors and tall tales. And I let them be afraid. It makes my job easier.” – Richard Kadrey, Butcher Bird “We wear the mask that grins and lies, / It hides our cheeks and shades...
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Bad girl’s death
“Don’t I rate a bad girl’s death?” – Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird It’s cold, but at least the wind is dry. Better than the wet nights, at least. The wind cuts and moans, but it doesn’t suck the heat out...
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Trigger, Transgress, Transcribe
Trigger. They’re things I haven’t exposed myself to in months, maybe a year or more. They hurt, every time. It’s a cleaner wound now than it was, but just because the cut is cleaner doesn’t mean it...
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First inch, last inch
It comes on slowly, creeping up like crackling frost fingers blooming in slow motion across a windowpane. Just a few careful skeletal fronds at first, adding a pleasant accent to the view outside....
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21 Recipes, Infinite WTF
So, let’s start with one fun fact: 21 recipes. 6 of those do NOT have gelatin(e) in them. 6. And that’s including the EXTREMELY QUESTIONABLE final recipe whose original text is lost in the bowels of...
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