A Crystal Bridge Between Worlds
Upon a grassy hill, beside a small rocky outcrop from which gushed a bubbling stream, Alanna surveyed the Welsh countryside below, laid out in summer glory. Flowers bloomed amid the grass and rock formations, while…
Month: May 2022
Maid of Orleans
Set your eyes upon this torture stake As the road to sainthood she must take The great Princes of both church and state Did bid her here to seal her fate To kill the life…
Men Without Piety: A Study of Chivalry in David Lowery’s The Green Knight
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall,…
A Legendary Queen: Part 1 – Chapter One: Before Narnia
There were rumors of war going around - rumors that the Germans were rearming themselves and invading countries. All the adults talked about it, and all the kids would pass on to each other what…
Small Transformations Everywhere
Everywhere are Changes I mean of the transformational kind Dandelion into clock Or Romantic blackbirds Into parents Or mourners Bare tree into blossoming Cherry Into shedder of display Into bursting with Fruit beginnings Daffodils into…
The Giant of Chaldor
There was once a tribe of frightened, little people, making their way – and mostly losing it – across a great empty plain toward the Mountains of Mome. Their leader was the Giant of Chaldor.…
Abortion as an Effect
Abortion. It’s in the media a lot nowadays. Many people would like to outlaw it. But I’ve been thinking about this subject for a week or so, and last night I was talking about the…
Ipswich, Willesden and Walsingham: Three Marian Shrines in Sixteenth Century England
Everyone likes a mystery. The story I am going to tell has elements of a good detective story: statues revered for centuries, royal agents bent on destruction of images, traditionalists trying to preserve sacred objects…
Sorrow May Last: A Pocahontas Story
The thinnest sliver of light crept through the slim opening in the folds of the tent in which John Smith was held captive, casting shadows on the cloth walls around him and allowing him to…
A Legendary Queen: Part 1 – Prologue
Fairdawn 23, 838 As she grew older, Queen Atarah became more and more uncomfortable with the concept of possibly not having an heir to the throne. She and her husband, the king, tried most…