Did you know that even if you are not an adventurous Indiana Jones type, you can still go hunt for treasures, sometimes from the comfort...

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SONNET ON THE SONNET If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd, And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet Fetter'd, in spite of pained...

Lucy was sitting at her kitchen table on Boxing Day, her hands wrapped around a large cup of tea, the ring adorning her left hand...

THE KRAKEN Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far far beneath the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken...

Clarence yawned and shivered. The temperatures were starting to rise slowly, but there was still a chill in the air, particularly so...

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SHUT NOT YOUR DOORS Shut not your doors to me proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed...