Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

FROM MAGGIE HOGARTH: Marda Quincesinger, Postulant.

Marda Quincesinger, Postulant (Coracle Book 1) by [Maggie Hogarth]

When the Adversary shattered the world, the Savior and her Companions kept the remaining pieces from falling into the void. The school they established trains young boys and girls to continue their work, healing the cracks, facing wrongbeasts, and reversing the aims of the Adversary wherever they can.

And all of this is work for heroes, as far as Marda Quincesinger is concerned. She’s more interested in the cake her mother’s baking her for her fourteenth birthday than in taking on the daunting work of an Outremer. But faced with the chance to help her family, she decides to see if she has what it takes to join the Outremers’ ranks.

Full half the hopefuls who arrive for their first year don’t return. Will Marda be one of them? Or will she find the hero in herself?

A gentle story in the tradition of the Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, and Harry Potter.

A LATE MEMORIAL DAY POST:  Rememberance.

THE SENESCENT WHO TRUST THE MASS MEDIA AND DON’T CHECK ANYTHING ARE THE DEMOCRATS MOST RELIABLE BLOCK:  You Asked for a Rebuttal, Dad.

Even while the party preens itself as being the party of the future. Lying to people too senile to seek other sources: the new Mass Media specialty.

ARE THEY FOR REAL, NOW? ‘Menstrual Equity For All Act’ to end ‘period poverty’ brought back before Congress.

At the risk of grossing out most of the readers, where and when I grew up we didn’t purchase “menstrual products.” We did what your grandmother did, and used cloth, which we washed. You’d think the oh, so ecologically friendly left would prefer that right? But no, they feel a need to put their hands into our wallets to buy pads and tampoons for other people. And don’t give me “Were so strapped they couldn’t afford–” I have never heard of this in the US, and trust me, I’ve been strapped at time. This is one of the most ridiculous excuses to point a gun at my head* I’ve ever seen.

*When you levy a tax you’re extorting money by force. While some taxes might be unavoidable they should pass a sniff test of “is this reason enough to point a gun at someone’s head?”

TO BE FAIR, WE WEREN’T ASLEEP. WE HAVE JOBS AND FAMILIES AND MOST OF US ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO PAY THE TAX-HUNGRY STATE:  Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?

But with the anger I’ve seen stalking this land, I hope we don’t decide to focus like lasers on what’s going on.  I mean, I do. It’s a mental condition. But let’s hope our fellow citizens don’t all, en masse, become as aware as I am of what’s been going on.  Americans have no brakes when it comes to war. And this would be war. Civil war, the worst of all wars. Be careful what you wish for.

FROM MARY HARE:  Cloak and Stola.

Cloak and Stola by [Mary Hare]

When the Roman legion sweeps through the farmlands of Syria, Sophie loses everything: her home, her family, even her freedom. Changes to the marriage laws under Caesar Augustus bring her to the attention of Procerus, a Roman soldier stationed in Judea.
Procerus is looking for a wife. Sophie’s looking for a way forward. Neither are looking for love. But will they find it anyway? A historical romance set in the sweeping drama of ancient Rome.

ALL CORRUPTED BY GNOSTICISM:  Life of Python.