Caligula's Launderette

Nightfall (Alternatively Starfall) "It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light." -G.K. Chesterton “He’s heavy.” I was practically panting by the time we reached the first mark. After ...

Infaustus --The Unlucky One-- Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the czar won't see his face. -Russian Proverb “The glass, get me the glass.” Aetius rushed to do ...

Lygarde de Mayne Legerdemain [lej-er-duh-meyn]: a sleight of hand, trickery, deception, or any artful trick. Origin 1400-50; late Middle English: legerdemeyn, Middle French: lygarde de mayne, light of

Honor, Chivalrie, and Gentilesse "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill It was a dark and stormy night. Actually it wasn’t quite dark and stormy, ...

The Wishing Gate “You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore Fred Maitland followed the shrill whimperings and the click-clack of black ...

On the Edge of the World, Facing Up “A day may sink or save a realm.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson “…then Captain Marmalade and his crew loaded the treasure into ...

This is Hedgewitch 'verse. But it involves spoilery things, if you want to know those spoilery things ask me, and I shall tell. How to pronounce the name Yvaine, the ...

The Woodlanders[for Fool's Duel]“Esse quam videri: to be, rather than to appear.”They stand at the gate, to attention; their great, round, stone bellies protruding like oversized children’s marb