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Sealand's latest brilliant plan to be recognised as a nation involves making a bid for membership in an international organisation. Finding the right one to join, however, is a lot harder than he'd expected.
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The Monster at the End of This Book by Gramarye for Lalaith
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
20 Dec 2011
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'Even when I ask about him, all that anyone will ever say is that he is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, the Prince of Silence, the Foe of Speech. But they will not tell me what he is like, or what he can do, or how he will react to those who try to stop him. How can we spy on him if we don't know the first thing about him?'
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On nights like these, Cha Song Joo thinks of Russia.
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After a long absence from the New World, England travels into the northern reaches of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in search of young America -- and discovers the horrific lengths to which fear of witchcraft has driven some of his colonists.
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The numbers never stop moving, and neither does he.
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Welsh Assembly Member Bran Davies has a unique approach to political campaigning, if his opponents are to be believed. (Part of the Eirias Triad series.)
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- Part 5 of Eirias Triad
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The nations have lost their ability to communicate with each other in any language other than their official languages. Canada and Switzerland, as nations with multiple official languages, have been pressed into service as simultaneous translators for EU meetings. But how will they react when a desperate Italy begs for help to convey a message that he can no longer say on his own? (Germany/Italy, implied France/England)
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- Part 1 of Simultaneous Translation
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At a wake for his old boss Willy Brandt, a heavily inebriated Germany starts to recount some of the political jokes that his boss was known to tell. Prussia, however, doesn't see much to laugh about.
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The ways of warfare are changing at the dawn of the sixteenth century, and the Swiss Confederacy is not pleased to discover that his tried-and-true tactics are less effective than they once were.
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Each year since 1947, a Christmas tree has been given to the people of London from the people of Norway in gratitude for Britain's support for Norway during World War II.
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It began, as it ended, with a book and an outstretched hand.
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Friendships, like reservoirs, are often shaped by what lies well below the surface. But even after thirty years of friendship, Will Stanton is not entirely prepared to find some unexpected depths. (Part of the Eirias Triad series.)
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- Part 4 of Eirias Triad
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. -- attributed to Xenophon. Anthony Blunt, Julian Bell, and Guy Burgess, in various permutations.
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A collection of drabbles written for the LiveJournal darkisrising100 drabble community.
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In March 1979, Conservative Party whip Francis Urquhart is about to engineer the downfall of the Labour Government -- and he has no intention of letting an overeager young policy researcher muck things up. Pre-canon, implied (but only implied) Francis Urquhart/Tim Stamper.
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Jean Price speaks to a meeting of prospective Labour parliamentary candidates, and provides some particularly helpful advice to one of them.
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The State Opening of Parliament has a particular meaning to one of the newest members of the House of Lords -- or so he seems to suggest. Set sometime in the not-overly-distant future, and the third (and final) part of the Eirias Triad.
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- Part 3 of Eirias Triad
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While visiting Bran at university, Will finds that his old friend has taken an active interest in many things political. The second part of the Eirias Triad.
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- Part 2 of Eirias Triad
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Bran Davies liked to play with matches. The first part of the Eirias Triad.
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- Part 1 of Eirias Triad
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Some concepts don't require an exact translation. Set immediately after the events of The Grey King.