Key Advice for Aspiring Writers
Storm Constantine was one of the first authors who inspired me to throw myself into writing fantasy. She also happened to be local to the area where I grew up, which was part of the fascination because…
Author: Fellowship & Fairydust
Inspiring faith and creativity & exploring the arts through a spiritual lens
A Stature of Our Favorite War Hero
Let us build a statue of Sergeant SchultzStanding bravely at the door of Baracke 2With a bouquet of flowers in one mighty handAnd a slice of apple strudel in the other And on the base let…
Discarded Banner
Look me in the eyes Or do you dare? Are my colors brighter than you can bear? Or is my story darker than you will own? For you are each a thread with which I’m…
Haunted House Club
~ by Amanda Pizzolatto & Aurora Mandeville As anyone on Alixandria knows, genies are fascinated by otherworldly reports – specifically ghost stories. There is some speculation as to why this is, as genies are often…
The Trials of Relocating to Rural Italy
I moved to Italy back in May 2014, and boy, what an adventure it has been! It had been a good ten months or so between coming over to sign the final paperwork on the…
Submission
She submitsNever to the constant carnival of changing societal norms,A colour-changing chameleon of contradictions. She submitsNot to man, money or meritocracy,The majestic monsters of materialism. She submits Not to boundaryless, muscular liberalism,False falcon of freedom…
The Ten Quadrillion Septillion Year Monkey Theorem
~ by Brett Abrahamsen The infinite monkey theorem states that an infinite number of monkeys, at an infinite number of typewriters, for an infinite amount of time, will almost certainly type the complete works of…
Dragonheart
~ by Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) (Starring characters from Pixar's Brave and DreamWorks How to Train Your Dragon) Heather linked arms with Merida, clearly nervous about the ball. The redhead patted her sister’s arm.…
Return of the Wild Ones
Stained in shades of bloody red and orange rust The leaves drift down silently Beneath the squall of crows – Hidden in the occasional thud! of fallen acorns- Something is awakening. The air is scented…
Saint Hubert’s Hunt
O cross between the antlers beamingbrighter than the brightest painSearing, sun-sunk hour of death, hail!Strung of suffocation and suffusionHunted as the wild stag, white as host-to-tongueWild bread, wilder meat, wending through weeds,Hooves that wound us,…