Ever Vigilant
Her feet crunched against the autumn leaves, the “crunch” the only sound for miles. The fog…she knew the fog was coming. The ominous arms stretching out to strangle her…there was no way she could outrun…
Author: Fellowship & Fairydust
Inspiring faith and creativity & exploring the arts through a spiritual lens
Ladies and Gents: An Encounter with the Inklings
I’ve been keeper of the Bird and Baby since the last tender sold the grounds to the university. I was a spry young fellow then, eager to get myself established in the world, so when…
A Not So Horrible Beginning – Part 3
EmilyI dropped my stuff on the counter and sank into my comfy armchair. Visiting my parents had been rough today, my dad was complaining as usual, and my mother was wondering when I was going…
Out of the Information Highway to Middle-Earth I Am Come: A Review of The Lord of the Rings Online
Aragorn crouches on the ground, studying the map laid out before him. I stand off to one side and try to look as if I actually belong here. Tersely he gives orders to our…
A Not So Horrible Beginning – Part 2
EmilyI hopped out; the sky was an inky blue and looked as if diamonds were littered across it. Liam came up behind me, resting his arm on my shoulders. He gazed down at me “Do…
A Not So Horrible Beginning – Part 1
I sighed, watching my hands slip the earring into my ear. My reflection stared back at me with a sulky expression. I couldn’t believe my friends did this to me. A Blind Date! What was…
Ram’s Horns: Isaac Narrates the Sacrifice on Moriah
I was in a deep, sound sleep, enveloped by soft darkness, when someone shook me by the shoulder. “Isaac! Wake up, child!” I heard a voice, my father’s calling me.…
O For a Star: A Lord of the Rings Poem
Outside the lair: This wasteland chokes my hope, my breath. My doomed path looks only to death. My Burden hangs with heavy strain. It makes each step a piercing pain: A fiery wheel, an Eye…
Bart the Bard
Bart was a bard and was known as Bart the Bard. He wasn’t a very good bard, actually. His rhyming was terrible and his singing so out of tune that his audiences always ran screaming…
Writer’s Magic: Creating Political Plotlines in Your Novel
“So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!”Politics are a huge part of life. Step outside and you’ll see campaign posters, signs stuck to telephone poles,…