Excerpt from new dystopian novel “The Graces of Bliss Hall “ By E. Micheal Bablin She remembered, with a kind of lucid, silent ache, what it meant to be at Bliss Hall—the first and only time in her life that rules had shaped her as much as love. The rules were strict, almost monastic in theirContinue reading “The Graces Of Bliss Hall.”
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Chapter 4: The Princess’s Journey
They had sworn an oath, the protectors, an alliance forged not from trust but necessity—to guard the princess, who was now Empress of the Warrasua. She would travel by proxy and by fate alone; her future settled by signatures, her name now Argonne. She was only fourteen, Princess of the First League, selected for aContinue reading “Chapter 4: The Princess’s Journey”
The Old Elm Tree of Clizbe Avenue
Ah…. That 1962 sunshine, radiant and warm, poured down from a sky so blue it seemed limitless. Captured in a snapshot, it was a memory of light pressing against the edges of that moment. There was a hint of a lazy afternoon, with shadows stretching languidly across the grass, and the air carrying the scentContinue reading “The Old Elm Tree of Clizbe Avenue”
“Greetings from shvibzik,”.
. On the morning of July 19, 1918, in Ecktrenburg, Russia, at 49 Vosnesensky prospekt, a small leather suitcase was taken and put on a train. This suitcase was guarded by dozens of guards (men?) and eventually was placed in the basement of a museum. It was called the museum of the October Revolution. (I’veContinue reading ““Greetings from shvibzik,”.”
