Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.” ― Anthony Esolen Crispian Butcher is a throw-away child who, at fifteen, has learned what it means to be homeless, friendless, hungry, tired with nowhere to rest. He... Continue Reading →
It isn't possible to love and part ... I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – E.M. Forster There’s nothing you might expect and everything you might imagine in Keira Andrews and Leta Blake’s Ascending Hearts, the story of a man named Jack who, by virtue of his red hair... Continue Reading →
It isn't possible to love and part ... I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – E.M. Forster There’s nothing you might expect and everything you might imagine in Keira Andrews and Leta Blake’s Ascending Hearts, the story of a man named Jack who, by virtue of his red hair... Continue Reading →
One's not half of two; two are halves of one. – E.E. Cummings I’m such a sucker for Once Upon A Times that lead to Happily Ever Afters. You know, there’s a school of thought out there that says fairy tales can be harmful to impressionable young minds, especially for girls who may begin to... Continue Reading →
One's not half of two; two are halves of one. – E.E. Cummings I’m such a sucker for Once Upon A Times that lead to Happily Ever Afters. You know, there’s a school of thought out there that says fairy tales can be harmful to impressionable young minds, especially for girls who may begin to... Continue Reading →
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Kahlil Gibran There’s a single line in Eric Arvin’s The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men that, if I were being lazy, I’d use to sum up exactly what this book is and leave... Continue Reading →
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Kahlil Gibran There’s a single line in Eric Arvin’s The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men that, if I were being lazy, I’d use to sum up exactly what this book is and leave... Continue Reading →
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead I’ll have his bones to grind my bread. – Joseph Jacobs The only thing Jack Wicket is willing to work hard at is coming up with schemes to avoid having to work hard at anything at all, but getting rich... Continue Reading →
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead I’ll have his bones to grind my bread. – Joseph Jacobs The only thing Jack Wicket is willing to work hard at is coming up with schemes to avoid having to work hard at anything at all, but getting rich... Continue Reading →
It's a week of reviews coming up, as Bruce and I gear up for the Hop Against Homophobia & Transphobia on May 17th. You'll want to watch for that because there's going to be a giveaway along with the post topic we've chosen to discuss, something near and dear to both our hearts. Meanwhile, here... Continue Reading →
It's a week of reviews coming up, as Bruce and I gear up for the Hop Against Homophobia & Transphobia on May 17th. You'll want to watch for that because there's going to be a giveaway along with the post topic we've chosen to discuss, something near and dear to both our hearts. Meanwhile, here... Continue Reading →
Never archer there as he so good And people called him Robin Hood Such outlaws as him and his men Will England never see again – Thomas Gale, Dean of York Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men rob from the rich and give to the poor; or so the legend goes, of the... Continue Reading →
Never archer there as he so good And people called him Robin Hood Such outlaws as him and his men Will England never see again – Thomas Gale, Dean of York Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men rob from the rich and give to the poor; or so the legend goes, of the... Continue Reading →
We're so thrilled to have author Hayden Thorne as our guest today, and we hope you’ll help welcome her. :) Hayden has a new book that released on April 14, 2013, from Queerteen Press, called Gold in the Clouds, a project she’s here to tell us a bit more about, as well as offering an... Continue Reading →
We're so thrilled to have author Hayden Thorne as our guest today, and we hope you’ll help welcome her. :) Hayden has a new book that released on April 14, 2013, from Queerteen Press, called Gold in the Clouds, a project she’s here to tell us a bit more about, as well as offering an... Continue Reading →
Every fairytale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. – Alice Hoffman Welcome to a contemporary fantasy, where fiction becomes fact, and the pages of borrowed imagination become the amorphous fabric that veils the arcane realms from the sight of mundane mortals. If, that is, you’d classify Athens, Iowa and its residents... Continue Reading →
Every fairytale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. – Alice Hoffman Welcome to a contemporary fantasy, where fiction becomes fact, and the pages of borrowed imagination become the amorphous fabric that veils the arcane realms from the sight of mundane mortals. If, that is, you’d classify Athens, Iowa and its residents... Continue Reading →
Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II Quinn O’Malley knows a little bit about grief; it’s buried him, after all, under the pale ash of a life devastated by the very act of surviving when the one he’d lived for, the one he’d loved for, left him; and with that... Continue Reading →
Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II Quinn O’Malley knows a little bit about grief; it’s buried him, after all, under the pale ash of a life devastated by the very act of surviving when the one he’d lived for, the one he’d loved for, left him; and with that... Continue Reading →
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