"We hold in memory his blessed passion, his resurrection from the dead and his glorious ascension into heaven. And from your gifts bestowed on us we offer to your glory and majesty the pure victim, the holy victim, the perfect victim: the holy bread of eternal life and the chalice of everlasting salvation."

From Eucharistic Prayer I, The Roman Canon





Content Warning:
Disturbing Scenes

"That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes
Like New Orleans reflected on the water,
And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes..."

For Sidney Bechet, Phillip Larkin







Content Warning:
Threat, Violence References

First Clown
Who is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?

Second Clown
The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.

Act V, Scene I, Hamlet, Shakespeare








Content Warning:
Some Adult Content, Sex References

"One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow..."

The Snowman, Wallace Stevens

If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?
And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

Matthew 18: 12, 14








Content Warning:
Discriminatory Language Relating to Disability

"How weakly understood

Thy great commanded good,

Then, fatherly not less

Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay,

Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say,

"I will be sorry for their childishness.""

Toys, Coventry Patmore

Content Warning:
Infrequent Explicit Language and Scenes of an Adult Nature

"Ch-ch-ch-changes, face the changes [...]

Time may change me, but I can't change time"

David Bowie






N.B.
I am proud to say that absolutely no content warning is necessary in the case of this, my first published story. I must apologise for some odd background noise, produced from a neighbouring room in the Exeter University apartment I take up my residence within...however, on listening back to the recording, I found it strangely, oddly atmospheric... enjoy!

"All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio, what's new?
Radio, someone still loves you"

Queen






Content Warning:
Disturbing Scenes and Infrequent Uses of Language

N.B.
Apologies for quality this week. This is more of a bonus pre-release than the main item of the week. I don't have access to studio silence but wanted to release something as it's been a week since the last story. Robert (dad) will be producing a longer and more high quality recording of a story at the weekend about a vicar who has a strange visitor to her house).

"Thou hast not youth nor age- but as it were- an afterdinner's sleep, dreaming on both"

Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare









Content Warning:
Infrequent Use of Language, Sex References, References to the Occult 

A Poem by Charlie Price