Ever England
Brave Hurricanes and Spits still claw and climbFar up into the English summer sky,At the lingering end of a golden timeAs wild young lads and aging empires die. The Hood and Rodney still the Channel guardAgainst the strident Men…
Month: November 2021
The Tash Files – Chapter 17 – King Ram the Great
My Dear Vichy, I just wanted to write to you because I’ve been so satisfied with how things have been progressing in the Enemy’s chosen country lately and I wanted to be sure that you,…
Susan of Narnia: Remembering (The Eighth Chronicle of Narnia) – Chapter Seven: The Kiss
Susan fell backward, away from the fevered children as doctors rushed toward Jill and Eustace. “Please give us space to work or leave the room,” a doctor snapped at the parents. Everyone else moved out…
Books on Watch
A day closes in obedience to the clock,To weary yawns, more yawns, and wonky jointsWords read are unremembered at this hour,And pages lie open, idle, unseenThe windowpanes reflect only this roomAnd its books, neither neat…
Bread and Birds: A Reflection on Providence
There is often a shadow of anxiety that catches me at random times every day. It’s a howling voice that tells me to be on guard. It likes to mock my hard work as well…
Autumn Adventures – The First of Autumn: 01
"Greg! Greg! Now where did that brother of mine go? Greg!" Bert Whispers called out into the woods surrounding the little house. Bert shivered when he glanced at one little spot drenched in inky shadows,…
The Tash Files – Chapter 16 – Prince Rabadash
My Dear Jester, Well done, my diabolical employee, well done. I’m really at a loss for words when I look at the record of awesome sins that your patient has racked up; the best and,…
Susan of Narnia: Remembering (The Eighth Chronicle of Narnia) – Chapter Six: The Hospital
Susan didn’t want food—it seemed so pointless to eat when death weighed on the world all around her. But Carl wasn’t so inclined, and he made certain she ate a little before they went on…
The Phantasia: Fairy Tales as Bastions of Hope
Very early on, children read in fairy tales that all sorts of monsters exist, and that everyone needs rescuing. The people need rescuing from the monsters, and the monsters need rescuing from themselves. The dragons,…
Book Shops Offer Us Civilizations
Book shops offer us civilizationsDemocracies of the living and the dead -Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, and youOver cups of coffee wrangling meter and rhyme Book shops offer us civilizations James Weldon Johnson, Keats, and Claude…