All that surrounds me is my own deep blue scent of fear. Once this would have roused my hunger, the instinctive urge of the rahksa, the Crescent Reavers, to hunt, to kill. Now, though, the fear is all mine. The hunter has become the hunted. I am in a blackness unlike any other. The velvety […]
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From Forensics to Fiction Author: How Turning Down a Buckle Changed My Life Path
Sometimes, in losing something, you gain far more, even when it is such an intimate loss as an arm or a leg. Or an eye. Like redwood forests that need the cleansing destruction of Wildfire to burn out strangling undergrowth in order to properly flourish, so might the human spirit need a similar destruction to […]
Evalyce Short Story: Starshard
ASF Starshard, Remar Sector, Year of the Wolfrise, 2452 CE I’ve been to nine planets in twelve years and it’s starting to show. New planets that is, beyond the Coalition’s territory. I’m about to add number ten to that list- Kes Annel, a planet on the edge of the Coba Sector. I focus […]
Book Review- The Ghosts of Ildereen by Phyllis Fox
***This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite. *** What would the walls say if ruins could speak? Ghosts of Ildereen, written by Phyllis Fox, is a tale of history, of love, of hope, and dedication. Heather Gregg has gone to spend the summer taking care of her friend’s home and working on […]
Book Review- Secrets of Ravenstone by Yza Dora
Secrets of Ravenstone by Yza Dora is an interesting young adult dystopia set in the very near future of a world just next door to us. The protagonist, Yzavela is fleeing the city of London, after a sinister takeover, but it is a London (and a world) in which magick and the preternatural are par […]
The Mythic Feminine, Part 10: Gender-Bender: Stephen Ezard (The Last Enemy, BBC)
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Last Enemy, 2008 […]
The Mythic Feminine, Part 9: Modern Heroine: Arya Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire series by GRR Martin)
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark and Miltos Yerolemou as Syrio Forel, Game of Thrones, 2011- present Arya Stark, daughter of Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell, is one of the many heroines to be found throughout the world of A Song of Ice and Fire and her story is still unfolding. Arya comes from a noble […]
The Mythic Feminine, Part 8: Legendary Heroine: Hua Mulan (Chinese)
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The Mythic Feminine, Part 7: Tragic Heroine: Rhiannon (Welsh Celtic)
Tragic heroines are a little different from their male counterparts. Typically, the tragic heroine does not suffer her fate due to her own fatal flaws. It is far more common that their downfall comes at the hands of the men in their lives, either by the men’s fatal flaws or by their treachery. Sometimes, however, […]
The Mythic Feminine, Part 6: Descent of the Goddess: Inanna (Sumerian Myth)
Long ago, when the world was young, the god Enki planted a huluppu tree along the banks of the Great River Euphrates in the time before he set out for the Underworld. The tree was nurtured by the Great River, till a great storm came from the South and ripped the tree free from the […]