Category Archives: Random

Bloodline by Angela B. Chrysler

Bloodline by Angela B. Chrysler published May 2009 in Kritter Kronickles Magazine Sleeping beside me is my *ten-year-old cat, Peach. Peach is as ordinary as any short haired, white cat can be. But for me, Peach is special. At night, she crawls up against my chest and I hug her as if she were a […]

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Welcome Guest Blogger Joshua Blum

Art Imitates Life Imitates Art: Writing Fiction as Kind of Therapy   I was recently listening to a radio program talking about a classical piano competition in Moscow where competitors from all over the world were tasked with playing works by composers like Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.  The commentators were talking about whether there were rivalries […]

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The Tyger By William Blake

The Tyger By William Blake Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what […]

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Gunga Din By Rudyard Kipling

I first heard an excerpt of this from M*A*S*H when Pierce quoted this in the OR. Gunga Din By Rudyard Kipling You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ’ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, […]

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