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,…
Year: 2021
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…
Eternity Begun: A Meditation on St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
The dead can be our friends and mentors, perhaps even more fundamentally and intimately than those we live and work with every day. We have many invisible brothers and sisters who watch us serenely and…
The Tash Files – Chapter 15 – Lasaraleen
My Dear Placebo, Let me start out by saying how gratifying it is to write to an employee who is on their talons while they’re doing my work. I’ll bet that, even with all your…
Susan of Narnia: Remembering (The Eighth Chronicle of Narnia) – Chapter Five: The Book
Susan awoke in her own bed in confusion. She didn’t remember falling asleep, and she didn’t feel as if she’d slept, though she knew she’d just opened her eyes. The sun mocked her disarray, glaring…
Day of Wrath: Sweeney Todd and the Search for Salvation
I have some Catholic reflections on the haunting use of the traditional Latin requiem chant Dies Irae in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", the 1979 musical by Stephen Sondheim, which was turned…
The Tash Files – Chapter 14 – Hwin
My Dear Orp, Silence is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? I mean, I could go on and on about the benefits that silence holds for my side. When there is silence the Enemy’s ranks usually…