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Crucifixion: Antiquity, Medieval, Or Modern?
Here's a curious thought for the forum. Been working on another short crux story, and have been debating between the following: 1) Crucifixion of Roman antiquity. Innocent woman is crucified for a...
View ArticleJourney To Rome
"My lady!" The cry from the guard at her chamber door awoke Princess Kirana from a dead sleep. Next, an anguished gurgle from the guard told her he was dead. When her groggy eyes came into focus in the...
View ArticleThe Lost Panorama
A recurrent topic on the forum are stories and pics of classical scenes of crucifixion in the Roman arena. Among these pics are reproductions from what was once a monumental panorama painting, entitled...
View ArticleEvery Shadow Burns My Face
[ a little fairytale of a story which will twist its way to the kind of end such tales have. The ingredients are all in the pot, such as kings and quens and knights and frogs, good and bad but it still...
View ArticleA Saturnalia Story
2016 is almost done. A strange time, an annus horibilis in many ways, perhaps a turning point in world history. Despite that, for me, personally, joining this merry group as an active member around the...
View ArticleLast Night, Final Thoughts
Sunset: I never thought I would die alongside these people. There are forty-seven of us, and we are like family now. Tomorrow we will be crucified outside the Benjamin Gate. We were arrested late this...
View ArticleBrothel Tokens (spintriae)
Roman coins used as tokens for entrance in Roman brothels Some scholars have argued that spintriae were used to pay prostitutes, possibly for use in brothels. Since there were a lot of foreigners...
View ArticleA Gift For King Gladness
It was Christmas time in Cruxonia. And Phlebas, the Lord Chancellor of Cruxonia, was in a bit of a lather. What should he give King Gladness as a Christmas present? It was a question which required a...
View ArticleGertie's Christmas Evening.
GERTIE’S CHRISTMAS EVE Christmas Eve. Five p.m. Gertie Stevens’ company office. “Hello, Gertie!” "Agnes!? Good afternoon! What brings you here?” “The same occasion as every year, Gertie! I come to...
View ArticleTarzan And The Last Stand
Tarzan' s eyes opened when a soft rustling below his tree house woke him. It was stiflingly hot. He crouched, listening carefully. Tarzan was not a young man anymore. Though to all outward appearances...
View ArticleThe Laugh Of The Hyena
Ahead, there was a large outcrop of rocks, a clump of trees clustered on one side, around it tall, lush grass. Through the shimmer of heat-haze, cat-tails swayed among a dense stand of reed, promising...
View ArticleStories From The Colonies
This is a story from a very dystopian present. I plan three parts, and will post the first very soon, the rest when I write them. Each part will be a complete story, but they link together. I have...
View ArticleCarfulena Delia
Carfulena Delia Colonia Patricia Corduba, Baetica, c. 120 AD I Iunia Latina Comes Crispus could well have drank more wine from Asta Regia, yet on that scorching summer day in Corduba he, a Roman eques...
View ArticleHorny The Unicorn
Wragg’s belly felt like a pot of writhing eels as he waited outside the office of Professor Phlebas the Purple, the respected but somewhat notorious Headmaster of Cruxwails School of Sorcery and...
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Roman Resources
Okay once upon there was a mighty Empire and its fall in the West at least ushered in a period of lost records and chaos popularly known as the Dark Ages. Well recently Crux Forums has suffered its own...
View ArticleEvery Life Must End
Every life must end. That very morning, as the woman trembled In her prison rags, her chains Trembling with her to match her trembling soul, Till they reached the cold stone wall, Where all tremors...
View ArticleMidnight On The Gethsemane Local
I found this tonight and want to share it. The reasons may or may not be obvious. Enjoy! (Journal Poem at the Death of Gregory Corso) Each night on the corner of Hammer & Nails Sts. the words of...
View ArticleWomen At Olympic Games
The Olympic Games as we know them today have a long history which goes back to ancient times. Although some elements of these Games were revived »as they were« when the modern Olympic Games were...
View ArticleAncient Femal Sport Games
One of the main themes of sport in ancient Greece is that of separation of the genders. The genders were divided and the society emphasized different traits in both males and females. A great statesman...
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