"IF I HAVE TO SHUT ONE MORE CABINET DOOR," I imagine her saying, eyes pressed tightly together like hands in a desperate prayer.
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Martyr of the Day: Saint Jason
I missed yesterday, but one of the martyrs was Saint Jason and that took a lot out of me, emotionally. We're peak goyische here, Saint Jason.
Martyr of the Day: Saint Bibiana
After being martyred, Bibiana is also buried in the house, next to her mother and sister, so that now the house is too full of corpses and it will be tough to sell, one would imagine, to a family interested in a finished basement.
Saint Andrew: An Excerpt
Regulus dreamt once to hide Andrew's bones, and then dreamt again to sail with them, as far West as he could go, "to the ends of the earth," which ended up being Fife, as seemed only fitting, where he was shipwrecked, there being little else to do in Fife.
Martyr of the Day: Saints Ansanus and Maxima
Sometimes there are always baths, always baptisms. The nereid Thetis dipped her son Achilles into the river Styx, but only up to his heel, but only upside down, and he was a Good Strong Son until he wasn't. (Achilles, whom we're not interested in, as far as this post goes, is older than he knows,… Continue reading Martyr of the Day: Saints Ansanus and Maxima