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Month: November 2025

The Children of Lír

Posted on November 15, 2025November 17, 2025 by admin

A retelling of the Irish Story of The Children of Lir

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Aengus and Dagada

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

A retelling of why LOVE and TIME are intimately related and how the ancient people of Ireland had a myth that explained it

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When Beams Cross

Posted on November 15, 2025December 13, 2025 by admin

A story about 2 antithetical people who find they have body swapped in a new teleportation device, one a liberal reverend the other the secretary of defense

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The Teach Bán Light

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

A fable about the drive for modernity and how it sometimes is not either necessary or a good thing .. and lighthouses

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The Mirror of Understanding

Posted on November 15, 2025November 17, 2025 by admin

A parable about how you might become invisible when you get older

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The Library of Quiet Love

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

A parable about an authoritarian take over of words and stories

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The Last Gentleman Thief

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

In an age of tech crime the last of the great thieves takes one last job

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The Cottage On the Hill

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

A story about a broken man and his journey to understanding of life and sheep

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Forward Post

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

A space marine stands guard over a forward command post on an alien planet

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Me and the Void

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by admin

I imagine a conversation with the void, as I examine the Nietzsche quote “if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

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