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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 9.

Posted by Eric Marsh on Fri, 18 Sep 2026

Chapter Nine.

The Lecture.

Amanderella took a seat along the side wall. The hall wasn’t crowded, but it wasn’t empty either. About a dozen people had come — enough to make the place feel used rather than lonely.

Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 9.

Posted by Eric Marsh on Fri, 18 Sep 2026

Chapter Nine.

The Lecture.

Amanderella took a seat along the side wall. The hall wasn’t crowded, but it wasn’t empty either. About a dozen people had come — enough to make the place feel used rather than lonely.Read more

Poem of the week

White Noise

Posted by skinner_jennifer on Mon, 14 Sep 2026

Now I'm in the system riding on ocean

waves of chemotherapy and medication

deeper than anything I've known before,

needles bruise; feeding Pembrolizumab –

Aprepitant – Ondansetron.

Restore this malfunctioning body, let me

be pure...crush the enemy. I imagine good

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Chosen by marandina:

Autumn is here and isn’t it fabulous to see a season full of the most wonderful colours?!

Before we look at this week’s picks, a couple of parish notices:

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Gregor by Drew Gummerson. Review by Sean McNulty

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem of the Month for August, very kindly chosen by Jane Hyphen:

These are my choices for the month. So hard to choose! I could have mentioned more but you don't want a ramble so I've contained it as much as possible.

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