Fair Semblances
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Monday, December 1st, 2008Although it was fully dark when Mishael entered the opulent city of Lusk, the broad street that the magnificent gate opened up upon was brightly lighted, and there were lights in most of the windows of the tall buildings lining either side of the street, so that he could see the city’s legendary beauty almost [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 14)
Monday, November 24th, 2008When our three wanderers first stepped out of the sunless tunnel and into the desert again, it was broad daylight, nearly mid-day, judging by the height of the sun in the sky. For awhile, the luminous brilliance of the sun quite overwhelmed their gloom-accustomed eyes, which had been several days away from any light stronger [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 13)
Monday, November 17th, 2008For a long while, Mishael and his friends made their way southward through the all-but-endless corridors of the dismal tunnel. The air was damp and stale, the temperature was a little too cool for comfort, and the monotony of the smooth stone floor and crumbling walls, the ceiling which was constantly dripping water and sand [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 12)
Monday, November 10th, 2008Our underground wayfarers had not made it more than a few paces down the broad thoroughfare leading out eastward from the magnificent throne room before their attention was arrested by another small but very significant-looking room to their left. The entrance, perhaps twenty feet high, was much smaller than the main entrance to the throne [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 11)
Monday, November 3rd, 2008After all the events of the past several days, the travelers were hoping for nothing more than an uneventful journey the rest of the way to Lebben-Or; but even in this they would be frustrated by a most unexpected occurrence, which would utterly change the course of their quest, and provide them with no little [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 10)
Monday, October 27th, 2008The Springs of Elim, which the companions had stumbled upon in so timely a fashion, was the common designation for a very ancient and historically significant location, which had been lost to the world of mankind for so many generations that most men had begun to relegate it to the realms of fabled legend and [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 9)
Monday, October 20th, 2008Among all those peoples who live near the borders of the great Desert of Salt, certain tales are frequently to be met with, coming usually from the garrulous old men who consider themselves formerly to have been intrepid adventurers, of a phenomenon so terrifying and destructive that very few who have encountered it have ever [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 8)
Monday, October 13th, 2008Later that night, as the men were finishing up with the packing of the copiacorns, Mishael left the center of the camp, sat down on the grass, which was already wet with the dew, and looked up into the heavens. He had never really appreciated the stars when he lived in Fair Semblances. For one [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 7)
Monday, October 6th, 2008There was a breathless and very somber silence when Lebbaeus finished his brief history. Mishael’s head was all in a whirl, and he was going back and forth between disbelief that the place he had known and loved all his life could really be so evil, and a very thankful wonder that, if it really [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 6)
Monday, September 29th, 2008Elkanah’s voice was surprisingly clear and powerful, for a man of his age and slender build, and the sound of the Old Characters, read at first in the Ancient Tongue itself, struck Mishael as the most powerful, beautiful, rich and somber tones he had ever heard in all his life. It was almost as if [...]
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