For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Beyond the black river, time is not as it is here. The spirit of Joshua looked back on all the generations before him,
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The Book of the Prophet Joshua – Chapter Eight
For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The sun sank beneath the trees. Joshua was one day north of High Jasper. The river bent east before him. He knew this
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For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The empty space of the new graveyard yawned across the hillside. The workers cleared it as if generations would lie there, but
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For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The prophet, his deputy, and the abbess of Bethel met in the House of Justice. It was only a rough cabin, but
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For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2, 3, 4. The dove came to Rebecca. It met her outside the Great Inn at Nindad and led her to the east. It seemed
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For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2, 3. There is a long, high hill in Hadochee. The people there call it Flower Mountain. Once a boy named Joshua had lived
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For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2. The prophet stood on a high bluff. A hot summer wind stirred the trees below, their myriad hues of green shifting like
Continue ReadingThe Book of the Prophet Joshua – Chapter Two
For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1. Despite the unholy terror which woke the goats with the morning, the flock was calm and compliant as Adam led them out
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It was a hot day on the western plains. A goatherd struggled up the crumbling side of a high, windswept mesa, his flock far below, grazing peacefully in the sparse vegetation. As he reached the
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The Dreams in the Witch House
The second Lovecraft adaptation in the Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, a horror anthology due to come out on Netflix later this month, has its roots in the world of genuine science. In late
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