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Chapter III

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 ·0

Chapter III In which is the Phantastical Explanation of the Knight’s Conversion “I fell asleep one night,” proceeded the knight, “after having been delivered to my abode in the inchanted cage, to the bickering of my niece arguing with the curate about me: “His worship, being so learned, might even mount the pulpit, or go [...]

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Chapter II

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 ·0

Chapter II An Account of Sancho’s Incredulous Response to the Change in the Valiant Knight’s Constitution There was a profound silence after the knight uttered this statement, a silence unbroken by the housekeeper’s laments, the knight’s blabbering or Sancho’s harangue; the stretch then punctuated with the faint sound of Rozinante’s familiar neighing. “Oh Devil take [...]

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Chapter I

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 ·1

The True History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: Twice Knighted, Thrice Scholared Author: Sid Halmet Bean-and-Jelly Published By: The Un-lying Presses (Licensed by the Order of Knight Errantry, Strawberry Creek, La Bu Nancha) Chapter I Of the parallel possibility of existence The heavy oak door was locked shut. The housekeeper sat outside it, at [...]

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A Note on the Story: “A True History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: Twice Knighted, Thrice Scholared”

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 ·0

Hello RIL-ers, I don’t know who comes here how often now, but this place still exists for anyone who writes and wants to share his/her work. My personal study schedules have left me with no time in the past year to be updating here often, or even to write something worth posting; yes, a sad [...]

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Ex

Posted on 06. Jun, 2009 ·0

Ex blows out. The stream of smoke is steady, wispy, seemingly endless. He exhales a decade and two years in one breath. It billows back at him in eddies. In this one sitting he sees everything he has done, seen, been – as vaporous and ephemeral as all he breathes out, seen to unseen. Hangs [...]

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