Angel Image: A Phantom of the Opera Story
~ by Stephanie Piro It was late. Where was she? Dallying with Raoul, again? What did she see in him? Was it his blue eyes? His golden hair? His virile features and wealth and title?…
Month: July 2019
Breathless Horror: Frankenstein and the Monster Within
In Mary Shelley's classic novel, "Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus," Victor Frankenstein wishes to create life using a sewn-up body made from pieces of corpses as the shell. Though Victor manages to actually bring it…
Les Miserables… The Title Says It All
For most of my life I had heard good things about Les Miserables the musical. And I greatly enjoy a good musical. For the last few years I’ve kept a lookout at the library for…
Love of a Father
~ By The Ginger Lightning flashed across the Paris sky, illuminating the dark, stone walls of the cloister of Notre Dame. Thunder echoed off the walls. The wind howled across the stone, sounding like a…
Reprise: A Les Miserables Story
~ By Seth Figment Reader Advisory: themes of suicide After being greeted and brought to the afterlife by Fantine's spirit, Valjean wanders away from the crowd and encounters someone he never thought he would see…
Up in Flames
~ by Amanda Pizzolatto Erik coughed and gasped as he fled from the smoke into the darkened streets. He stumbled a few feet from the opera house before stopping and turning to look at the…
Notre Dame: A Picture Walk from 2017
~ By Sarah Levesque When I got the news that Notre Dame was burning, I was at work. All my coworkers and I were aghast that such a treasure was burning. Thankfully, we soon got…
One Small Star: A Les Miserables Poem
~ by Avellina Balestri One small star, like the flame of a candlestick One small star which my blot out the rest One small star that may heal all enmity One small star that may…
An Emperor’s Grudge
~ By Adeel Ahmed Author's note: The following is based on a true story about Thomas Dumas, the son of a black slave woman and a French noble father, thus making him of mixed racial…
Beauties, Beasts, and Phantoms: A Brief History of Beauty & The Beast
The perennially beloved tale of Beauty and the Beast has been told in dozens of different ways throughout the years. From its origins in far off days as a myth of a god and a…