The Ravens
By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word count: 753 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A new fairy tale in the style of the old ones Once upon a time, in a far away…
Year: 2018
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved: Chapter 1
I don’t understand. That was the only coherent thought I could grasp amid the tumult swirling in my mind. Seized with foreboding intuition, I knew that this was going to be a night unlike any…
Furious Fancies: The Musings of a Traditional Catholic Poet
Poetry is a young man’s game. That is not to say that older people (and women) can’t write fine poetry. They can and do. But there is something about a man’s youth — his…
All In A Day’s Work: A Harry Potter Story
~ by Sarah Levesque "Mail's here, sir!" Skandyr Thistlethwaite sighed. "Thank you, Carly. I'll take it." The young witch handed him a large container of mail. A good worker, Skandyr thought approvingly, even if she…
May I Borrow Your Finger?
By Lawrence "Mack" Hall Word Count: 91 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A poem about today's childhood. A small child asked another. An old man turned To wonder about a question he had never…
Silence Louder Than Words: A Movie Review of “A Man for All Seasons”
Year: 1966 Filming: Color Length: 120 minutes Genre: Biography/Drama/History/Inspirational/Political/Religious Maturity: PG (for brief language and intense thematic elements) Cast: Paul Scofield (Sir Thomas More), Robert Shaw (King Henry VIII), Wendy Hiller (Alice More), Susannah York…
Women and Other Worlds: The Feminine Mystique Comes to Fantasy
‘My subject, then, is things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else: things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all.…
Scarlet Wings
I love my love And whereon he moves… I love my love And where he flies On scarlet wings Through blood-red skies A dove appears On spring’s bright morn But feathers freeze In winter’s scorn…
Death and the Lion: A Crossover Serial – Chapter 8: A Stellar Recovery
By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 31845 Rating: PG for scary situations Summary: Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, is used to being alone, until one day a girl with auburn hair waltzes…
