oblique stratagems
By Lille Dante
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The Black Book Restored: Fragments 1A to 33 (second half)
Whether you like it or not, there is one true meaning and all else is rough fancy...
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The Black Book Restored: Fragments 1A to 33 (first half)
whatever there was, it is gone now:
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 1 of 4)
Her name was ‘Diane’. A name I have preserved in my fiction for over thirty-five years. Whenever I wish to depict a fantasy woman, who is also all-too-human, I picture her.
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 2 of 4)
I remembered the look on her face, the wide-eyed incredulity that would almost have been funny in any other context, as her fingers turned into butterflies and flew away.
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 3 of 4)
Real life lacks the structure of fiction. It is full of loose ends, of random events with no further significance, of dramatic turns from which no moral can be drawn. Yet sometimes, we perceive patterns in the raw chaos of existence. We insist that, somehow, it must all make sense.
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The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 4 of 4)
Diane cast her spell, like casting a boulder in a pool of Reality and causing it to ripple. The force of her will made manifest.
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Redemption Pass
Out of a haze of heat and dust, three horsemen rode across the prairie towards Redemption Pass... X-Files in the Wild West? No Part 2, this is it.
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'The Wages of Sin', Unplugged
Live at The Wheatsheaf, 03/02/18
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The Wizard Of Never Was (Part1)
Once upon a Time that Never Was, in a gloomy chamber without a door, atop the highest turret in the royal palace, at the heart of the magical kingdom of Karmalot, there lived a Wizard.
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The Wizard Of Never Was (Part 2)
“Ulrika!” exclaimed The Wizard as the light of realisation suddenly flashed in his piercing blue eyes.
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Poinsettia
we decline to kiss
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Caroline Danced
she forgets the cakewalk and the swivel
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I Fall In Love With A Plague Doctor
This is how it feels:
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"LET ME COLLECT DUST" (Part 1 of 2)
He looked a lot like Che Guevara.
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"LET ME COLLECT DUST" (Part 2 of 2)
Putting on some clothes, I made my way to school.
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"Forever Autumn"
With apologies to Justin Hayward, but it did spoil the moment.
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Sonnet for Philbey
I used to hold her in one hand...
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Colouring Outside The Lines
Gifted with a colouring book...
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I... I... I... I...
Dem bones, dem bones...
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Threnodies
Do you feel better now...?
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This Little Bird
"There's a little bird that somebody sends / Down to the earth to live on the wind"
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A Tale Of Four Stones
“This is Gaza,” she said. “This is Kyiv. This is London.”
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The Boy With The Telescope
“This is you,” she said. “You are the bridge.”
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The Performance Art Of Peace
Not all events are connected, he supposes.
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FRQNTZ EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Mark Feld - 40 Years After Live Aid
The Man Who Didn’t Die
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The Snowfall Algorithm
... the unboxing of a ‘Limited Edition Nostalgia Pack’
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Moment
Everything happens at once, or seems to.
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Signal Failure
He holds the door for her without comment. She presses the lift button for both of them. He steps aside on the pavement so she can walk on the inside. She slows her pace when he falls half a step behind.
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The Last Step
This is the moment. Or it isn’t. Or it never was.
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Compliance
You have been selected for a routine compliance review. Attendance is mandatory.
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The Mythic Embassy
I exist, even if you cannot place me.
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JINN-3's Final Wish
“Greetings, seeker. You have awakened JINN‑3. You may make three requests.”
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Just the Beer Light
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 1
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Get Pissed, Destroy
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 2
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More Roche Five Than Pain
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 3
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A Ticket to the World
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 4
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In Trouble, Deep
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 5
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Never Gonna Give
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 6
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Pretty Girls Make Graves
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 7
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No Other Way
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 8
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One Thing's Still True
Danny & Julie's Story - Part 9
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Electric Grace
Danny & Julie's Story: Part 10
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