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Two Lines
Inspired by the Child's Ballad, Willie's Lady, Will and his wife, Nell find themselves unable to conceive under a witch's curse.
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Apr 13, 20237 min read
Thief
Vic was going to do it this time.
He had first seen the selkies months ago and now he could almost feel warm fur beneath his fingers.
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Nov 10, 20222 min read
Ouroboros
“Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail." - J. Campbell
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Aug 11, 20225 min read
The King of Cats
"What ― Old Tom dead! then I'm the King o' the Cats!"
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Jul 14, 20223 min read
In Summary: The Ballad of Tam Lin
A popular Scottish ballad, the legend of Tam Lin tells the story of Janet who must win her Love from the cunning fairy queen.
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Mar 17, 20224 min read
Tamatori-Hime
“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear from the injury of the oyster. " ― Stephan Hoeller
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Feb 3, 20224 min read
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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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 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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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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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 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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