Pádraig Barry (PJ)
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Donal had always thought memory was a treacherous thing, rising like fog from the fields bringing back guilt for one’s deeds almost forgotten. On reflection, he thought it could ease pain too, softening the edges of truth until even sorrow seemed like a kindness.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Donal had always thought memory was a treacherous thing, rising like fog from the fields bringing back guilt for one’s deeds almost forgotten. On reflection, he thought it could ease pain too, softening the edges of truth until even sorrow seemed like a kindness.
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The common room was in chaos - half the historians were arguing about the butterfly effect, and the other half were trying to fix the toaster. Agnes stayed out of each fray. She was going to enjoy the Holiday Season no matter how crazy things got at Oxford.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The common room was in chaos - half the historians were arguing about the butterfly effect, and the other half were trying to fix the toaster. Agnes stayed out of each fray. She was going to enjoy the Holiday Season no matter how crazy things got at Oxford.
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Alice didn’t know why the Victorian maid insisted on calling her ‘milady’ with such disdain, but if she was on to her it was an unusually effective way to make her feel like an imposter.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Alice didn’t know why the Victorian maid insisted on calling her ‘milady’ with such disdain, but if she was on to her it was an unusually effective way to make her feel like an imposter.
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In the hush of the convent garden, she felt an inchoate longing, as if her soul remembered a song it had never sung.
These moments came and went for Sister Barbara. Her world was service and teaching and she would stay bound to it.
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These moments came and went for Sister Barbara. Her world was service and teaching and she would stay bound to it.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In the hush of the convent garden, she felt an inchoate longing, as if her soul remembered a song it had never sung.
These moments came and went for Sister Barbara. Her world was service and teaching and she would stay bound to it.
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These moments came and went for Sister Barbara. Her world was service and teaching and she would stay bound to it.
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He had worn his youth like an evergreen boutonnière, pinned to his lapel with the careless pride of a man who believed time would never dare touch him. But touch him it did as it will eventually do to all of us.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
He had worn his youth like an evergreen boutonnière, pinned to his lapel with the careless pride of a man who believed time would never dare touch him. But touch him it did as it will eventually do to all of us.
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Perhaps Agnes over prepared for this jump or spent too long at the Holiday Party. When she came for her jump to 1960s Paris, she wore a boho shawl and seven necklaces, each with a reference to a saint or a quantum particle, and she claimed she could feel the timeline shifting in her bones.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Perhaps Agnes over prepared for this jump or spent too long at the Holiday Party. When she came for her jump to 1960s Paris, she wore a boho shawl and seven necklaces, each with a reference to a saint or a quantum particle, and she claimed she could feel the timeline shifting in her bones.
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Amelia flew low over the mountains. Her copilot kept checking the gauges, but she watched the snow in the air and the ice on the wings. The trip was getting more dangerous by the minute, but there was no turning back now.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Amelia flew low over the mountains. Her copilot kept checking the gauges, but she watched the snow in the air and the ice on the wings. The trip was getting more dangerous by the minute, but there was no turning back now.
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The intern was too shy to ask if the platform boots were period-appropriate for 1940s Boston, which meant we had to reroute the entire timeline to avoid a fashion paradox. Quick thinking dropped Agnes in Greenwich Village where even in the 1940s anything went fashion wise.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The intern was too shy to ask if the platform boots were period-appropriate for 1940s Boston, which meant we had to reroute the entire timeline to avoid a fashion paradox. Quick thinking dropped Agnes in Greenwich Village where even in the 1940s anything went fashion wise.
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There was a glint in his cufflink that caught Ginny’s eye - sharp, metallic, and cruelly precise, like the smile he wore when he thought no one was watching. She knew him, a gentleman was he; at least as long as he thought people were watching.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
There was a glint in his cufflink that caught Ginny’s eye - sharp, metallic, and cruelly precise, like the smile he wore when he thought no one was watching. She knew him, a gentleman was he; at least as long as he thought people were watching.
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There were candles on the piano and candles in the chandelier, but none in Janet’s eyes, which had long since gone dark from the life being married to a distant rich man.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
There were candles on the piano and candles in the chandelier, but none in Janet’s eyes, which had long since gone dark from the life being married to a distant rich man.
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Patrick expected danger, paradox, maybe a rogue Victorian with a parasol - not the monotonous paperwork of temporal displacement forms in triplicate. The work of an undergraduate intern in the Time Travel Department was not nearly as exciting as what was claimed in the college brochure.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Patrick expected danger, paradox, maybe a rogue Victorian with a parasol - not the monotonous paperwork of temporal displacement forms in triplicate. The work of an undergraduate intern in the Time Travel Department was not nearly as exciting as what was claimed in the college brochure.
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Worry, when it came, came like the tide - slow, certain, and not to be reasoned with. It didn’t shout or knock. It simply settled. She told no one. There was nothing to tell. Only that something had shifted, and she could no longer say with any confidence that everything would be all right
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December 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Worry, when it came, came like the tide - slow, certain, and not to be reasoned with. It didn’t shout or knock. It simply settled. She told no one. There was nothing to tell. Only that something had shifted, and she could no longer say with any confidence that everything would be all right
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Clare was not bold, not in the way her sister Siobhan was, with her red coat and loud laugh. But she had a way of staying, of listening, that made people speak more than they would otherwise. It made her quite useful to the Army in the days before the troubles ended.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Clare was not bold, not in the way her sister Siobhan was, with her red coat and loud laugh. But she had a way of staying, of listening, that made people speak more than they would otherwise. It made her quite useful to the Army in the days before the troubles ended.
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The old nutcracker broke in his hand. Bill looked at the walnut, still whole, and laughed. He was not defeated yet. He took the walnut and two others in his hand and clenched his fist. With a cracking sound the offending walnut was in pieces.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The old nutcracker broke in his hand. Bill looked at the walnut, still whole, and laughed. He was not defeated yet. He took the walnut and two others in his hand and clenched his fist. With a cracking sound the offending walnut was in pieces.
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The salmon leapt once, high and silver, its body catching the light at the apogee before it fell back into the river. The obstructing dam had been removed last year and I was amazed to realize a fish had returned so quickly to its native spawning waters.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The salmon leapt once, high and silver, its body catching the light at the apogee before it fell back into the river. The obstructing dam had been removed last year and I was amazed to realize a fish had returned so quickly to its native spawning waters.
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There was something starry in her eyes, not innocence exactly, but the shimmer of someone who still believed in throwing coins in the fountain and second chances.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
There was something starry in her eyes, not innocence exactly, but the shimmer of someone who still believed in throwing coins in the fountain and second chances.
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The dinosaur wasn’t supposed to be in the Bodleian, but then again, neither was Alice, and the puzzle of how a juvenile triceratops ended up in the Rare Manuscripts Room was going to take more than Patrick, a mop and a shovel to solve.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The dinosaur wasn’t supposed to be in the Bodleian, but then again, neither was Alice, and the puzzle of how a juvenile triceratops ended up in the Rare Manuscripts Room was going to take more than Patrick, a mop and a shovel to solve.
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He carried a whiff of the sea in his coat, as if the Nantucket Sound had stitched itself into the wool. I could not help but think of the boats that had taken so many of my relatives from Ireland to these shores. So many of them dead now with the sorrow of leaving still in their hearts
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December 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
He carried a whiff of the sea in his coat, as if the Nantucket Sound had stitched itself into the wool. I could not help but think of the boats that had taken so many of my relatives from Ireland to these shores. So many of them dead now with the sorrow of leaving still in their hearts
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The regifted fruitcake had survived 911, three divorces, and one unfortunate incident involving a Frank Lloyd Wright Prize Winner who mistook it for a brick. It had ultimately ended up on my dorm wing. “Give it to Mikey he’ll eat anything”. someone said. I did and he did.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The regifted fruitcake had survived 911, three divorces, and one unfortunate incident involving a Frank Lloyd Wright Prize Winner who mistook it for a brick. It had ultimately ended up on my dorm wing. “Give it to Mikey he’ll eat anything”. someone said. I did and he did.
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Agnes’ assistant claimed to be the spiritual successor of Marie Curie, but his experiments mostly involved microwaves and questionable cheese and more questionable recipes.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Agnes’ assistant claimed to be the spiritual successor of Marie Curie, but his experiments mostly involved microwaves and questionable cheese and more questionable recipes.
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Agnes wore a cool fedora and the smug expression of someone who thought she was in a noir, not a library. It took her a few minutes to realize the tech had been on his third energy drink when he set the jump coordinates.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Agnes wore a cool fedora and the smug expression of someone who thought she was in a noir, not a library. It took her a few minutes to realize the tech had been on his third energy drink when he set the jump coordinates.
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The Autumn State Faire crowned her pie the best in show, its filling made from the first harvest of Northern Spy apples from her own orchard. They were an old varietal, but their unique ability to stay firm when baked and their tart flavour swayed the judges.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Autumn State Faire crowned her pie the best in show, its filling made from the first harvest of Northern Spy apples from her own orchard. They were an old varietal, but their unique ability to stay firm when baked and their tart flavour swayed the judges.
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The Great Depression was a desolate time. It was goodwill, not his labours, that kept the house standing through the lean years, when his wife wept and the children grew thin as reeds. He never forgot his neighbours kindness and when good times returned he paid them back and then some.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Great Depression was a desolate time. It was goodwill, not his labours, that kept the house standing through the lean years, when his wife wept and the children grew thin as reeds. He never forgot his neighbours kindness and when good times returned he paid them back and then some.
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Agnes had retrieved the orchid from Merlin’ cave when she had made a jump to Camelot. Now it resides in the conference room of the Oxford Time Travel Department. The orchid changes color depending on who is lying, which made faculty meetings both shorter and significantly more violent.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Agnes had retrieved the orchid from Merlin’ cave when she had made a jump to Camelot. Now it resides in the conference room of the Oxford Time Travel Department. The orchid changes color depending on who is lying, which made faculty meetings both shorter and significantly more violent.
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Agnes hadn’t meant to fall in love with a Restoration playwright, but time travel had a way of making the illicit feel inevitable and a helluva lot more fun than being with that third year oaf from the science department.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Agnes hadn’t meant to fall in love with a Restoration playwright, but time travel had a way of making the illicit feel inevitable and a helluva lot more fun than being with that third year oaf from the science department.
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