Etruscan Death Pixies

Amelia Earhart is in the news again. Her disappearance always fascinated me as a child. It's pretty obvious, whatever the official story, that she couldn't have been terribly far from the Itasca, which gives the whole thing this weird, poignant quantity, as what ought to have been an embarassing but minor mishap slowly develops into a tragedy, with Earhart and Noonan waiting for an expected rescue that would never come.

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A short but magnificent My Little Pony fanfic. This is how I wish I could write.

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How sad that Prince Philip has fallen ill during the Queen's Jubilee!