STORY THREE OF THE CHRISTMAS STORY CHALLENGE:  Star Shepherd. Free, complete short story.

FROM TIMOTHY WITCHAZEL:  Joshua and the Battle of Jericho: A Poem in Alliterative Verse.

From author and poet Timothy V. Witchazel comes the story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho in alliterative verse. Tracing the story of the Israelites from the parting of the Red Sea to the fall of the walls of Jericho, the story is retold in the style of Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and other Anglo-Saxon poems.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT EARLIER, PART OF THIS YEAR’S CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE:  What Child Is This, Complete Short Story.

INTERESTING:  Buffalo Bill: The greatest true boy adventure story that’s never been told.

THEY’RE WILD:  Feral Tropes – A Listicle for Spotting Feral Tropes: Found Family, Aiming at Your Target, and “Kill Your Darlings”.

NOT TO MENTION ALL THE FRIED CRISPY BIRDS:  Economic suicide of covering Wales with solar panels.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE. SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:   Is Minnesota’s DHS Deleting Data to Hide Fraud?

YOU MIGHT WANT TO BUY A SCORECARD TO BETTER KEEP UP WITH THE PLAYERS:  Who Is Calla Walsh? Meet Another One of Zohran Mamdani’s Radical DSA Comrades.

WHAT KIND OF IDIOTS ELECTED MARK KELLY:   How This Dem Senator Dug His Own Grave During This Sunday Morning Interview.

INTERESTING:  Geothermal Engineering Breakthrough Announced Involving Cascade’s Largest Volcano.

WELL…  Report: Trump Issues Ultimatum to Maduro, Land Operations Appear Imminent.

A SUDDEN NEW RESPECT FOR BORDERS (VIDEO):  Migrants trying to get into Peru from Chile scuffle with police implementing border controls.

VERY MUCH THIS:  The United States is not – and should not be – the arbiter of all the world’s conflicts.

I’M PARTICULARLY — IF NOT UNIQUELY — QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT THIS:  Minnesota, Nice.

I’ve been here for forty years — fortieth anniversary coming up — and all the time I’ve been here, wanting to assimilate was treated as a weird and possibly dangerous behavior.

A VERY SALIENT POINT:  If they’re behind bars, they can’t easily re-offend.

WELL, GOOD:  US Mounts Offensive To Smash China’s Fruit Market Dominance In The Philippines.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT EARLIER, A SMALL:  Cyber Monday Sale!

AND ALSO:  The 2025 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale!  Runs Now Through Tuesday December 2, 2025.

THE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE CONTINUES:  What Child Is This, Complete Short Story.

YES, I KNOW. THEY’RE EVERYWHERE. BUT EVERY BOOK IS 99c:  It’s a Cyber Monday Sale!

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

WELL, THAT WAS FUN:  Baking and Barbarian. He’s bread for combat.

YOU JUST KNOW THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WILL SOMEHOW MANAGE TO LOSE ALL OF THIS:  St Mary’s, Fairford.  An accidental pilgrimage.

GOOD QUESTION. GO AHEAD AND ASK US:  The Libranos: Global Affairs.

SO. OTHER THAN OVERSEAS, WHERE WE CAN’T DRIVE, I PREFER DRIVING:   Pilot Vaccines.

WELL, SOMEONE NEEDS TO:  The White House Just Started a Weekly Fake News Roast.