Shadowlands Narrated by David Attenborough
With thanks to Justin Wiggins, who mixed up the Attenborough brothers and accidentally inspired this satire. This week, we look at a rare specimen. It lives in the heart of Oxford, in a dwelling dominated…
Year: 2023
Feasts of Saints
As the year draws to an end and the holidays loom ever larger on the horizon, starting with Thanksgiving, I would like to talk about some big holidays in Europe that take place in autumn…
The Ekron Initiative: Memo 10
Part of an ongoing web serial perhaps inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Unless otherwise noted, “the Ex-CEO” refers to God, “the opposition” to the side of the angels, and so on. Read the previous installment here.…
So What Happens at A Lord of the Rings Party?
“Hey, if Sauron wants to watch TV, let him.” I watch the orange balloon with the giant eye scrawled over it in Expo marker bobble around, its eye facing the projector we are using to…
Tropical Creation
By Robin Sebolino Today, I suppose many people shiver in the cold winter, although surely not in tropical countries. Weather is warm in lands close to the equator, like in my archipelago, where walking for…
Fantasy Author Interview: Luke Wildman
Luke Wildman has an unusual background. He spent most of his life through age 19 in Western Africa (primarily Nigeria) where his family worked as missionaries. Not surprisingly, his influences are diverse—his blog includes book…
The Ekron Initiative: Memo 9
Part of an ongoing web serial perhaps inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Unless otherwise noted, “the Ex-CEO” refers to God, “the opposition” to the side of the angels, and so on. Read the previous installment here.…
August: A Poem Duology
August is a Yellow Flame "That August was like a yellow flame" - Anna Ahkmatova, 1917 / Anno Domini MCMXXI / III. The Voice of Memory This August is indeed like a yellow flame Death writhes…
The Princess and the Paladin
Part I The Paladin returned one morning to a piece of dreadful news. It was the kind of tidings that kept him from the pews. For though a knight and champion, he was first…
William Lindsay Gresham and the Inklings: A Look at Nightmare Alley
Today marks 114 years since novelist William Lindsay Gresham was born in Baltimore. Nightmare Alley has a strange place in Inklings scholarship discussions. Published in 1946, it was written by William Lindsay Gresham, the first…