Let There Be Light

Darkness deep and long as Sabbath, deeper than a well, clinging on like dust to footprints empty like a shell. Hear! a voice, here intonation words abound today. Someone spits into the dust-road cakes his eyes in clay. Now he’s groping slowly onward toward Siloam’s pool, eager heart in racing footfalls though he feels the […]

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That Day in Jericho

A sea of chatter filled the air around: the shouts and laughter–turbulent and loud; and Bartimaeus, sitting on the ground raised his voice to shout above the crowd. The darkness pressed like noise upon his eyes. His heart, suspended, barely touched its beat. And yet he shouted, focused on the prize and would not stop, […]

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