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The Problem With every Bannockburn there comes a Boyne. The gods grant grain, alleviate our lives, then send us weevils, whitefly, worms..

The Cathedral What counts as old? Columbus paddling ashore on Cuba? Winchester Cathedral knocks the Genoese out of his sodden socks, ..

These summer evenings were the best! What is that colour? "Try celeste," he thought. Well anyway, a star was breaking through the colour, far ..

The Friend's Tale His groin was mutilated -- did you know? Please, try these pastries. Do. I love them so! And how is London? It's my favourit..

The Doctor's Tale The female died of blood loss from the womb. The Court declined my offer to exhume her. Age of seventeen, of thereabouts. ..

1. The Lady-in-Waiting's Tale There's nothing matters, girl, beyond The Ring! Are you betrothed yet? Me, I'm six months in. Hussars are handso..

The Tragedy of Mayerling In January, eighteen eighty-nine, disaster struck the Austrian court, and since that day, we've wondered how the hand..

Imperialism comes in many guises, but cruelly caustic, just like sickly sweet, the poison kills all those who chance to eat: each dawn is d..

The clod of sullen clay begins to turn. This soul-less, lowest element of Earth has shape breathed into it. I see the birth of meaning, structur..

If you bomb Pakistan with aplomb, and you whack Number One in Iraq while you pray the American way, that's entertainment. When you boa..