Fair Semblances
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Monday, May 4th, 2009The readers of this little tale, at least they who have any measure of that fine, empathetic sort of sensibility which the reading of such a story by its very nature demands, will doubtless be better able to imagine the delightfully turbulent emotions and soaring passions of a thousand sweet reunions than this humble teller [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 36)
Monday, April 27th, 2009By midnight, the Eschatoi were thronging into the hidden valley of the Pelites, until they had quite overwhelmed its narrow confines. Here they would find rest for a night, maybe two, but the sheer impossibility of their staying for the winter had become patently obvious well before the last members of the tribe had straggled [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 35)
Monday, April 20th, 2009For two days the Eschatoi, who had just become the last tribe to escape from the cruel slavery of Vrak and his taskmasters, continued their march at an exhausting pace. Times of rest were infrequent and brief, and furthermore, there were no satisfactory places to find any sort of real refreshment, even when the tribesmen [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 34)
Monday, April 13th, 2009For some seconds, the four companions watched the inexorable tide of tribesmen swarming over the fallen wall, entirely covering its stark remains as the clouds of locusts blanket any green tree when they swarm in the late summer. At first, none of the companions could believe what they were seeing, but a surge of joyful [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 33)
Monday, April 6th, 2009The rumblings and stirrings of the Dragon’s bowels were becoming more pronounced at an alarming rate. The four fugitives found it difficult to negotiate the pitching floor of the unlit tunnel, and an irrational fear came simultaneously upon all four, an unspoken but palpable dread that their time was short, that the world they knew [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 32)
Monday, March 30th, 2009The next few days were the most paradoxical that Mishael had ever known. In circumstance they were the lowest, the most hopeless, the most distressing and uncomfortable, unspeakable in their horrors of degradation and misery. And yet, in his heart he was the freest, the merriest, the most unshakably hope-filled, and in such an overwhelming [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 31)
Monday, March 23rd, 2009The clamorous mob led their three prisoners ever deeper into the Dragon’s Dungeon. The air was hot, stale and oppressive, and the never-ending twists and turns of the descent had a disorienting effect, so that Mishael, at least, began to feel as if he were not even on the earth at all, but in some [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 30)
Monday, March 16th, 2009Gilead and Mishael battled their way westward, following the raging river in the bottom of the canyon, until sometime after midnight. But finally, the combined exertions of the previous night’s march, the morning’s terrible battle, and the ensuing flight to the north had drained their strength utterly. They simply could not push themselves any further; [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 29)
Monday, March 9th, 2009The sky was heavily overcast that night, so that any help the companions had hoped to glean from the light of the moon and stars proved to be ill-placed. The darkness was deep and impenetrable, and its illimitable depths mirrored the profound gloom in the hearts of the company. Every step closer to Dolos was [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 28)
Monday, March 2nd, 2009The great dragon in the center of the black throne room seemed to swell up to twice his already prodigious size; the red glint of his eyes flamed up in an eruption of fury, smoke belched forth from all six of his nostrils, and in a menacing, multifarious voice, which seemed to proceed from all [...]
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