THE SNOW QUEEN (DESTIEL VERSION)
THE SNOW QUEEN (DESTIEL VERSION)The Snow QueenBy lafleurdumalFIRST STORY: Which treats of a fallen angel and a broken mirrorIn the very beginning there was an angel. He was clever and beautiful, and...
View ArticleCALLING A TABLE MARY
CALLING A TABLE MARYAnthology on Cross-Linguistic Lexical Semantic DifferencesWikipedia:The Pope is CatholicThe Pope is Catholic. You probably knew that. But does a person completely ignorant of...
View ArticleLOS MAGOS DEL ESTADIO
LOS MAGOS DEL ESTADIOOEL BARBARANO CONTRA EL INGLAPRUSIAEl presidente del Fútbol Club Barbarano está desesperado porque su equipo, no obstante la presencia de elementos de seguro valor, como Broco I y...
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PERHAPS HE NEEDED A COKE TO SHARE
Perhaps all Iago needed, after being cheated out of that lieutenant's commission (and maybe of his wife), was a Coke to share. If that were the case, he would not have turned to the dark side, but, on...
View ArticleTALES OF ORION, OR MOUNTAIN-MAN
TALES OF ORION, OR MOUNTAIN-MAN Looking over any sea on a cloudless night, where water ends and sky begins can be difficult to tell, the waters of the ocean as dark as the heavens and seeming as...
View ArticleTHE CHILD WHO CAME FROM AN EGG
Here is one of my favourite retellings of Nordic fairytales (In fact, I had a Jaimienne/Renlienne [Renlienne at the start, then Jaimienne in the second act] plot bunny with this premise, taking cues...
View ArticleAPOLLO AND HYACINTH - DERMARK VERSION
Translated by Sandra Dermarkfreely from Ovid's MetamorphosesYou, sweet prince, would the Sun-God have enshrin'din the skies, if they'd given you 'nough time;yet still, you last forever, and as longas...
View ArticleTHE OLD MAN THE BOAT
The title of this post is a so-called primrose path sentence, which, though it appears nonsensical at a first glance, is actually syntactically right.The snag is that "man" is the verb, there is a verb...
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IN MEMORIAM GUSTAVI ADOLPHI 2016 - I
Since this is the Fourth Centennial year, now we'll go for something completely different: a little crossover mashup with pre-Lützen cooing and post-Lützen tension (or: the one where Gustavus and...
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IN MEMORIAM GUSTAVI ADOLPHI 2016 - SLAGET VID LÜTZEN
SLAGET VID LÜTZENÖversatt till engelska och svenska av Sandra Dermark inför 6 nov 2016To the memory of Gustavus Adolphus Karlsson of Vasa*Nyköping, Sweden, 9th of December 1594 + Lützen, Saxony, 6th...
View ArticleSNAEHILDUR - JEAN LORRAIN
This is a Belle Époque-era retelling of The Snow Queen, written by French symbolist author Jean Lorrain, translated straight from the French, freely yet retaining the lyrism of the original, by me......
View ArticleKUDOS FOR THE BARATHEON SAGA
I have published excerpts from my Baratheon Saga in the FutureLearn course for Start Writing Fiction and received the following acclaim:What were the strengths and weaknesses of the character...
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TSQ-IV 2016 GORGEOUS ANAYA EDITION
Right, this is something I plan on giving myself for Christmas (one of my Dermarkian equivalents of porn/catnip): a formidable Anaya Snow Queen, freshly released, with Enrique Bernárdez's translation...
View ArticleFO(U)R(K) C(H)ANDLES REVISITED
FO(U)R(K) C(H)ANDLESTranscript[In this sketch Ronnie Corbett is playing the Shopkeeper and Ronnie Barker playing the customer]In a hardware shop. The shopkeeper (Ronnie Corbett) is behind the counter,...
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SEE THAT LITTLE STREAM?
See that little stream? See that little stream? We could walk it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk it, a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front, and pushing forward behind....
View Articleart made tongue-tied by authority
Today morning, I watched a Catalan band's musicated version of sundry Shakespearean sonnets in the auditory of Jaime I University.I am fascinated by one only line in particular, Verse 9 in Sonnet...
View ArticleSAVITRI AND SATYAVAN - PORTUGUÊS
Repleto de amor e graças a um casamento feliz, o ano restante da vida de Satyavan transcorreu rapidamente, e Savitri foi contando os dias, até que só restava o derradeiro. Na véspera da morte, ela...
View ArticleGAMES AT COURT
Games at CourtSummary:Francis want to practice fighting with real swords instead of wooden ones. Bash thinks it's a bad idea. One of the castle's former inhabitants agrees with him.Work Text:Francis...
View ArticleI KNEW MY WEAKNESS
I knew my weaknessSummary:Henry is mostly the sum of his rages these days, but there are the quiet moments. Too few and far between to be worth much, but they do happen.Notes:This is written for a...
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