Articles tagged ‘Fiction’.
The Age recently reported that a British doctor, suspended in the United Kingdom after reports that she tried to buy black widow spider and deathstalk...
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By Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky I’m not a Christian and I don’t believe in ‘God’. I’ve had little contact with organised religion. I know nothing...
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By Emille Zola The boat was drifting into a narrow branch of the river between two islands, deep in the shadow. Behind one of these islands, the voi...
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By Ernesto Cardenal, translated by Andrew McKenna Me contaron que estabas enamorada de otro y entonces me fue a mi cuarto y escribí ese artíc...
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By Lady Wilde THERE was a woman in Connemara, the wife of a fisherman; as he had always good luck, she had plenty of fish at all times stored away in ...
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by Denise Levertov Original Language English The Rav of Northern White Russia declined, in his youth, to learn the language of birds, because the extr...
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By Rosemary McKenry A 13-year-old girl, Ruby, puts up two ‘likes’ on her Facebook page. ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Kony 2012.’ Her friends do...
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by Li Po English version by L. Cranmer-Byng Original Language Chinese The rustling nightfall strews my gown with roses, And wine-flushed petals bring ...
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Singer and performer Darryl Emmerson will lead the Orange Tree Concert, a celebration of the work of Australian lyric poet John Shaw Neilson, at Chri...
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Long, long ago there lived a rich man who had an only son. This boy had an enormous appetite and was particularly fond of pumpkins. His parents got al...
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By Lalla Don’t flail about like a man wearing a blindfold. Believe me, He’s in here. Come in and see for yourself. You’ll stop hunti...
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By Kristen Krcmar*, 2011 Edited by Suellen Green You see that person over there? The one that’s standing up; the one blocking not only your view but...
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by John O’Donohue May the light of your soul guide you. May the light of your soul bless the work You do with the secret love and warmth ...
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Fourteen newly-discovered letters by Voltaire have allowed an Oxford University team to shed light on his brief but important time in England. Two of ...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche It had been a short, hectic day and I was glad it was over. There were some reports I had not gotten around to but that my manag...
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by Clare of Assisi English version by Regis Armstrong & Ignatius Brady Original language: Italian What you hold, may you always hold. What you do...
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[....] We were eating lunch on a high rimrock, at the foot of which a turbulent river elbowed its way. We saw what we thought was a doe fording the to...
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by Eihei Dogen (1200 – 1253) English version by Steven Heine Original Language Japanese To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In...
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The story of the shooting of Hing Kee and the lights that failed is a well known Queensland mystery. The following report comes from the former Deputy...
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by Pima (Anonymous) (18th Century) English version by Frank Russell Earth Magician shapes the world. Behold what he can do! Round and smooth ...
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Inniskeen Road: July Evening By Patrick Kavanagh The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn to-night,...
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by Baba Sheikh Farid (1173 – 1266) Original Language Punjabi Muslim / Sufi Sikh Says Farid, I thought I was alone who suffered. I went on top of...
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By Kristen Krcmar*, 2012 Edited by Suellen Green Oh Chuck how I love him so. I see him everywhere; he must be bi-sexual because I see him with guys to...
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by William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Come swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink ...
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for e...
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Photos and text by Cam Walker In January 2010, I moved to Castlemaine, in Central Victoria with my family. As someone with bioregionalist tendencies...
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Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) English version by Coleman Barks Today I’m out wandering, turning my skull Today I’m out wandering, tu...
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By Sami Grover We need more trees in our cities. But our cities also need to become more like trees. It seems to me that the challenge of building com...
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by Han-shan (Cold Mountain) (730? – 850?) English version by Burton Watson Original Language Chinese I spur my horse past the ruined city; the r...
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“The morning of May 18, 1902, was one of the worst that ever dawned in Killarney. All through the day a fierce nor’-wester raged, and huge whi...
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Brigid of Ireland I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us. I would like an abundance of peace. I would like full vessels of charity. I would ...
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