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Grain of Truth – Part One

Baron Samedi watches as I pour out the wine and measure the grain. He makes sure I don’t have a chance to steal some for my poor, shrunken belly; to sift through in search of something special. It’s not fair, but he knows me too well; isn’t prepared to risk the loss.

Erzulie
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Pssssst … Over at Marshall's Super-Sekrit Clubhouse

Marshall Payne continues his tradition of excellent interviews in ‘da House’. Today we have David Kopaska-Merkel (who is one of my Daily Cabal colleagues and awesome to boot). The interview itself is by Jaime Lee Moyer.

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The Frog Prince – The Middle Bit

How could it have gone so spectacularly badly?

Felicity negotiated Tad down to a family dinner. Was it Great-aunt Bernadette of Grenouille-sur-le-Tapis had married a frog who’d turned into a handsome prince? Whatever, someone had married a frog and it all turned out happily ever after. If worst came to worst, there was
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New Story at The Daily Cabal

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I don’t want to go in.

He’s there now, didn’t hesitate. It’s his home though he’s been away for long years. I warned him, or tried to but who listens to me?

I saw his wife in the shadows just before she stepped through the
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New Story at The Daily Cabal – Inheritance

‘Miss Millikan?’

I can barely hear the woman for the noise in the background at her end. ‘Yes?’

‘It’s Nurse Seraph at Sacred Heart. It’s your grandmother.’

I feel the cold hollow in my stomach, where a vacuum forms. ‘Has she?’

‘Not yet, but you need to come down. The others are here and there’s a bit of a problem.’

‘What sort of a problem?’

‘You’ll
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