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Blood Brother
"And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been." — J. Harris
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Jan 14, 20224 min read
In Summary: The Swallow, the Hoopoe and the Nightingale
We summarise a classical Greek tragedy, originally collected in Ovid's Metamorphoses, telling a tale of murder, betrayal and revenge.
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Dec 9, 20217 min read
White Scales and Red Roses
“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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Nov 19, 20215 min read
The Six Swans
"Why shirts made of graveyard nettles by bleeding fingers and silence should disenchant men..." ― R. Stonlit
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Oct 22, 20211 min read
The Unicorn Woods
“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished." ― Peter S. Beagle
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Oct 1, 20219 min read
The Fairy Nurse
"For fifty years she rocked that babe
/ It's said she rocks him still /
A mother of a changeling child from 'neath the fairy hill"
― H. Dale
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Sep 9, 20212 min read
Each-Uisge
"Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.” ― E.J. Stevens
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Aug 20, 20214 min read
The Trials of Psyche
"They say monsters can be beautiful too, and if that is the case then truly there was none more monstrous than he."
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Jul 30, 20212 min read
Narcissus
"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his." ― W. H. Auden
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Jul 9, 20211 min read
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
"Fashion a man equal to Gilgamesh
An untamed man to tame the tyrant
An untaught man to teach him secrets." ― Jenny Lewis
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Jun 17, 20213 min read
Sedna and the Storm
"You carry both lightning and thunder /
in that space between your bones and soul. / Become the storm you are hiding from" ― Nikita Gill
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May 28, 20211 min read
The Mermaid
"Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure" – Jean Lorrain
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May 7, 20212 min read
Tamamo-No-Mae
“The cunning fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” – Thomas Paine
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Apr 16, 20213 min read
The Beetle on the Moon
“…but the moon was shining and to conceal her deed, she took a pail of pitch and began to tar the moon black.” – Emilie Demant Hatt
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Mar 26, 20212 min read
The Children of The Earth
"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together," - Plato
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Feb 26, 20218 min read
Cupid and Psyche
"At once the secret was revealed. "There lay the gentlest and sweetest of all creatures, Cupid himself." – Lucius Apuleius
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Feb 8, 20211 min read
The Fall of Carthage
Dido was on fire with love and wandered all over the city in her misery and madness like a wounded doe.” ― Virgil
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Feb 8, 20213 min read
Between the Extremes
Let me warn you, Icarus, to take the middle way. Travel between the extremes." ― Ovid
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Feb 4, 20213 min read
The Magpie Bridge
"How can one have the heart to go back on the bridge made of magpies?" ― Qin Guan
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Nov 10, 20203 min read
Le Sommeil d’Arthur
“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead" ― Thomas Malory
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