A Legendary Queen: Part 1 – Chapter Two: A New World
Fairdawn 23, 839 I looked around the beach cautiously. There was a forest behind me, and what looked to be a castle very far away, to my left. The seagulls were walking near the…
Year: 2022
Change and Rest: A Reflection on the Work of Edmun Spenser
In 2019 and 2020 I had the privilege of having a teaching position at the University of Warwick, where despite my academic work being in Maths I was able to work with people from many…
To the Queen
Heavy is the head And strong the heart Of she who wears the crown. Lady, lioness Our Queen The young girl at the microphone Whose father braved his stammer And the bombs at Buckingham You…
O Lord, Forgive Me: A Patriot Story
I have long feared that my sins would come back to haunt me, and the cost is more than I can bear. God does not let the evil go unpunished; He is a God of…
At the Light’s Edge
“I figured it was going to do something like this,” Benny muttered under his breath as he huddled next to a brick wall, trying to get under the eaves of the building as much as…
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…
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…