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Kevin stood glued to his spot, the panel of mirrors across from the weight machines reflecting his expression. He looked like one of those bewildered cartoon characters, his mouth and eyes...
View ArticleThe Black Knight Leads
It took them a better part of an hour to come to some type of decision as to to whom they would tell, and what they'd reveal. As far as Beckett was concerned, he'd already said too much,...
View ArticleCabin Bound
Cabin Bound There just wasn't enough time. Simply not enough hours in the day. Not when you had the long list of responsibilities he had. A two week vacation for a Church Pastor...
View ArticleOf Journeys and Journals
Maureen starts a journal Five pairs of eyes stared at the image, flipping back and forth from the cell phone screen, to the view through the car's windshield. Beckett rolled downed the windows,...
View ArticleSpinning The Web
The front security gate was not the only part of the property that appeared to have suffered the effects of...dare they say it...enchantment. All of the foliage seemed to have taken on a...
View ArticleToo Sad
Our hearts are broken, our house and our lives a lot lonelier. Friday night, we lost our darling, little Westie Bonnie. (Bonnie is the puppy wearing blue) She was recently diagnosed with a possible...
View ArticleFamily
He pointed to the rocking chair, and for a second she thought about refusing, her head running the possibility of changing the subject. But the look on his face told her there'd be no getting...
View ArticleMeeting Maeve
He was awake long before the alarm on his cellphone blared a rousing version of Mendel's Hallelujah Chorus. Years of early morning Mass had helped to set his inner biological clock, and he...
View ArticleOf Kilts and Cu-Chulainn
A huge gourmet breakfast was probably the wrong thing to enjoy before a tough physical training session, but if the Black Knight thought so, he didn't say. Maureen had out done...
View ArticleA Contract...And A Wager
Cu-Chulainn's reputation The Queen waved her hand, and the strange man lifted off his one knee, coming to stand in front of the tree she was perched on....
View ArticleThe Black Knight is Schooled
The Lord Warrior finished his conversation with the Fairy Queen, then turned to face both women, gifting them with his finest smile. Bowing low at the waist, he reached out and took Maureen's hand...
View ArticleOf Love...and Other Diseases
The immense size of Beckett's property made solitude easy, though Fr. Kevin knew that if She Who Was All required him, he'd be found in an instant. Still, his flight gave him some level of...
View ArticleOf Magic and Mayhem
The whole damn dinner was a disaster. No. Not a disaster. Worse than that. More like a debacle. Maureen scraped most of a perfect chocolate souffle...
View ArticleOwen and Omens
He swung the wooden sword in an arc across his left shoulder, countering the flat of his opponent's weapon and heaving it away, only to have the man double up and...
View ArticleA Toast To His Lady
Beckett ignored her, instead loading a canvas bag with the wooden swords, poles and other training equipment, and throwing them with such force that the sound of splintered wood...
View ArticleFamily Ties and Outright Lies
She leaned back against the tree branch, showing no sign of the relief she felt at his departure. The subterfuge had grown tiresome. Complicated. It was the way of things with Mortals, an...
View ArticleFools For Love
He was in that foggy, heavy-limbed, post-coital twilight when he heard it. A rustle here. A snapped twig there. In any other time and place, it might have been mistaken for the wind...
View ArticleThe 'Hook' of Revelations
The Lord Warrior was the only one who returned from lunch in anything resembling good humor. Fr. Kevin held himself stiffly off to the left side of the training area, cleaning the blades of...
View ArticleOf Fathers and Fruitful Union
Five pairs of eyes stared at him, waiting for some kind of reaction. Were they kidding? What did they expect him to say about a notion so fucking ridiculous, it didn't deserve a...
View ArticleMessenger
The Fairy Queen's departure left them with lots to think about, and very little to say. Ian had tried to get them all interested in a game of gin rummy, but it was obvious that minds were...
View ArticleOf Mia, Magic and Murder
The new day was officially under way by the time the raven reached central Boston. It flew straight west toward the North End, landing near the basement window of the the old...
View ArticleUntil Death Do Us Part
Beckett took a fighting stance, his right hand over his left on the pommel with knees slightly bent, and waited for Owen to do the same. To his growing confusion, the young magician...
View ArticleInto the Light, and Back Again
Maybe he was dreaming. At least he thought he might be. It was hard to know for sure based on the experiences of the past several weeks. His body felt pounds lighter, and when he looked...
View ArticleOf Endings and Beginnings
She was right of course. They all did feel much better the following morning. Physically. Fairy magic could do little to dispel the haunting images their brains played...
View ArticleWith Heart Felt Thanks...
Dear Readers... Last week's post was aptly titled "Of Endings and Beginnings". As it was for Fr. Kevin and the gang, so it is for me...the door closed on one...
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