Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. - Alexander Hodge.I often wonder at the faith of others, but then, I have always been one to tend toward the rational things in life, and I admit to placing higher value there. The concept, in and of itself, strikes me as most odd, believing in a thing that one cannot see, a force ( Read more... )

It had been going on for a few months now, this sickness that had only gotten worse. Despite all the efforts of my father, despite the other doctors he had sent for later on. A few months in which we watched her gradually grow thinner, paler, losing all the spark of life which had made her herself ( Read more... )

My father always said that it would stunt my growth, but at my height, I no longer saw a cause to worry about that. It was growing out that was the problem.(It still is growing out that is a problem if Matthews is right.) The scent proved itself enticing enough as these things go and everyone else at table was drinking it and seemed better to face ( Read more... )

There was nothing I could do. Everything I had ever learned had managed to somehow escape my mind in the moments I had waited for the testing, in the three weeks captaining the plague ship. I could think of nothing to say to help in my answer, even my old familiar grasp of mathematics seemed to be gone. If the examining panel had asked me anything ( Read more... )

My greatest fear? It can, I think, be summed up in precisely one word: Failure ( Read more... )

Acting Lieutenant Horatio Hornblower, currently of His Majesty's Ship Indefatigable reporting for duty s...

Ah. Sorry. One tends to forget at times that the conventions of life on land are far different from those at sea. As it stands though, I do happen to be Acting Lieutenant Horatio Hornblower, reporting in to introduce myself properly to all ( Read more... )