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The Lion And The Lamb

The Lion And the Lamb, A short story by Sarah A. Hoyt

©Sarah A. Hoyt 2025

“What is a human?” the lambs asked, their little ears twitching, their moist noses turned up, their eyes full of trust. They were at that adorable age, ten or so, just short of sexual maturity, but fully in control of their vocabulary and very eager to know everything there was to learn.

“It’s a myth,” Agnes explained. “Our pious ancestors on Earth used to believe that humans were a benevolent species that had ...

Blood And Bullshit

What? Again? Why are we on this topic again?

Good Lord. I too am sick and tired of it. Trust me.

And yet there is a growing drumbeat for “America is a blood and soil nation.”

It’s ludicrous and laughable. I’ll be honest, it’s ludicrous and laughable even for other countries, but for the US it would be laughable, if it didn’t make me pull out all my hair and cry.

If you pursue that “blood” thing — and as an idea of how crazy this is, my husband thought blood referred to blood spil...

It Begins

Ready, set, go!

I have no idea what is coming. I want to make that very clear. I don’t have a crystal ball or a functioning time travel machine. (I could fix it, I could. But someone has misplaced the screws, and now they don’t make those yet.)

Anyway, this to say making predictions is hard. Particularly about the future.

Take today, for instance. I intended to write a short story to thank those who gave to the midwinter fundraiser. Instead, I got multiple-kidnapped by my husband, ...

Happy 2025

We Win; They Lose

I’d planned to do this post anyway, and then I realized it is the perfect post for the last day of the year.

Look, everyone: it’s going to take a long time for us to stop flinching and deciding we’re going to be betrayed. 2020 left scars in the collective psyche, and scars take a long time to fade if they ever do.

The last four years we were hunching our shoulders and just enduring the blows, and that will take a long long time to fade.

And sure, there are things that won’t go our w...

Family Arguments

I keep giggling when the media — even some on the right — refers to the lively… discussion last week about the appropriate use of H1B visas and when to import workers as “A MAGA civil war.”

Sure, there were the usual sh*theads babbling about how America is a “blood and soil” nation and all that nonsense. (The most amusing was the one arguing with me that America was created explicitly as a white nation. He failed to tell me which documents say so, and explain the divergence in what was c...

Shall All Old Memes Be Forgotten?

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All We Are Asking IS Give Kids A Chance

It’s one of those things… Apparently Vivek Ramaswamy, whom I’ll remind everyone was not my choice for president at any time (for a variety of reasons) decided it was a good time to put the fox among the hens by running his mouth from his own insular perspective on the need to import more foreign workers.

This is one of those things in which I’m divided. As one is.

I mean, on the one hand I think absolutely the US should get the best from anywhere else in the world. My perspective on what ...

Sometimes Nothing Is the Best You Can do

Just so you know, if you weren’t paying attention: There’s something weird going around. By which I mean there’s soemthing weird going on in the disease department.

I mean my coming back from Portugal sick isn’t a big shock. I catch everything I come in contact with, or even things that just wave passing by. No, the shock here is that Dan caught it too, and it took him three weeks to be okay. He never catches URIs. Period.

And then the reports kept coming, from friends and relatives. No, ...

Merry Christmas

And if you’re done with all your cooking and everything…. And haven’t read all my books yet… Or you need a last minute ebook gift for someone…

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Odd Magics: Tales for the Lost

Odd Magics
This is a very strange collection of fairytales, recast for modern life. In it the prize isn’t always to the fairest, the
magic is rarely to the strongest.
But lonely introverts do find love, women who never gave it a thought find themselves at the center of romance.
D...