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2011 A.B. - The Age of the Refining Ash (The Interlude of the Blink)

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742 S.E. - \"The Garden’s Reach\"

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312 A.B. - \"The Age of Echoes and Hunger\"

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A New Year’s tale of Sha-Nor-El

","url":"https://sparkybitespublishing.com/the-gathered-words/f/the-night-between-names","title":"The Night Between Names","summary":"A New Year’s tale of Sha-Nor-El","date_modified":"2025-12-31T12:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://sparkybitespublishing.com/the-gathered-words/f/the-quieting-and-the-shadows","html_content":"

A winter tale told to children in Sha-Nor-El

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c. 904 S.E. - \"The Humming Trees Mature\" In the Years When the Humming Groves First Answered Without Words

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820 S.E. - \"Rooted in Eternity\" - 30 years before the Era of Bright Remembering begins.

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850 S.E. - \"In the Days of the Young Groves\"

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888 S.E. - \"The Era of Uncounted Mercy\"

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1935 A.B. - \"The Reckoning in the Dust\"

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347 A.B. - \"The Age of Echoes and Hunger\" (The Years of Returning Silence)

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2053 A.B. — “The Second Breath” (twenty-one years after the Final Amen)

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777 S.E. — “The Rooted Dawn”

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422 S.E. - \"The Epoch of Eternal Ember\"

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1459 S.E. - \"The Hesitation\" (two days before the Break)

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Year 1459 S.E. - “The Quiet Week”

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Year 1 S.E. - \"The Year of the Breath\"

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Year 1277 A.B. - \"The Era of the Withering\"

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Year 1932 A.B. - \"The Era of the Dimmed Veins\"

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Watching the White House undergo renovation made me think about foundations, what we preserve, what we tear down, and what still stands when the scaffolding falls. Some people see demolition as desecration, the loss of s...

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“The fall didn’t create the darkness in people. It just gave them permission to stop hiding it.” — The Darkened Light of Joshua Clay, The Weight of Original Sin

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When my grandfather died, I went to the funeral. I didn’t go to honor him. I went because people I love were grieving, and I wanted to be there for them. Some of my relatives approached me in tears. I said, “I’m sorry fo...

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There are moments in caregiving that feel like silence. Not the absence of sound, but the presence of weight. A kind of quiet that settles into your bones and presses against your chest.

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It’s strange how something so small can feel so heavy.

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We spend more nights in the ER than we’d like to.

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There’s a quiet war being waged in our ears. Not the kind with banners and battle cries, but the kind that slips in unnoticed. Whispers, half-truths, curated outrage, and algorithmic fog. We’re told so many things each d...

","url":"https://sparkybitespublishing.com/the-gathered-words/f/verifying-in-the-valley-of-whispers","title":"Verifying in the Valley of Whispers","summary":"There’s a quiet war being waged in our ears. Not the kind with banners and battle cries, but the kind that slips in unnoticed. Whispers, half-truths, curated outrage, and algorithmic fog. We’re told so many things each d...","date_modified":"2025-09-19T15:03:59Z"},{"id":"https://sparkybitespublishing.com/the-gathered-words/f/the-toll-of-silence","html_content":"

“No one tried to pull him back from the precipice. They simply let it happen.”\n— The Darkened Light of Joshua Clay, The Watchman’s Test

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“It’s necessary to go through the fire to be tempered and refined.”

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My Why

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The law of the land can't be more grand than the law of Faith and Love,\nfor it is the one that can blacken the sun, and make a raven out of a dove.

","url":"https://sparkybitespublishing.com/the-gathered-words/f/the-darkened-light-of-joshua-clay","title":"The Darkened Light of Joshua Clay","summary":"The law of the land can't be more grand than the law of Faith and Love,\nfor it is the one that can blacken the sun, and make a raven out of a dove.","date_modified":"2025-04-17T10:11:24Z"}]}