Category Archives: fantasy

Fairy tales: Faces Glimpsed in the Forest by Jan Malique

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Strange Goings On in the Shed: Many of us have grown up with the older versions of fairy tales, visceral stories that were handed down from generation to generation. I certainly recall the earlier folk tales, devouring each … Continue reading →

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Guest Photographer and Storyteller: Cybele Moon – aka the Dune Mouse

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Sue Vincent

I stumbled across a site with an intriguing title, strange and magical stories, illustrated with the most fabulous photographs. Loving the atmospheric artistry, I invited the photographer over to be my guest… An excerpt from the Dune Mouse Chronicles Many … Continue reading →

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Technical matters are best left to skilled tradesmen from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

I confess I rarely have many dealings with erotic novelists. This isn’t snobbery on my part, it’s just they tend to be so much more generously remunerated than a mere poet. Still I do have a friend who is renown … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Susan A. Royal – Xander’s Tangled Web

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Sue Vincent

I write Scifi, Fantasy and Paranormal. Most of my stories are about people who have adventures they never expected. Think Twilight Zone or Amazing stories. Something along those lines. I love to talk about writing any chance I get, and … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Charles E. Yallowitz – Who’s in charge?

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Thanks to Sue for letting me be a guest on her blog. Normally, I would be writing about fantasy or something magical because that’s my main genre.  Yet, it isn’t my only one and I have my smaller world to … Continue reading →

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The Port Naain Philosophical and Debating Society for Ladies of wit and discernment – Tallis Steelyard

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Sue Vincent

As a less poetically inclined gentleman once commented, ‘My memoirs are not my confessions.’ These are sentiments I feel a certain kinship with, the duty of a poet is to draw attention towards that which is worthwhile, not to rub … Continue reading →

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Guest Author: Cynthia A. Morgan – A gentle message

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Sue Vincent

Best Seller! Must Read! Page-turner! Wait? How does one define precisely what these are when, to coin the over-utilized phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder”?  What makes a book something you cannot put down; what compels readers … Continue reading →

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Amateur dramatics – Tallis Steelyard

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Sue Vincent

The turn of the year always brings memories. You think back across the years and remember the people who are no longer with us. For me the end of the year is largely focussed around the Society of Minor Poets. … Continue reading →

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Guest Author: G. Michael Vasey – I Made an Album!

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Sue Vincent

G. Michael Vasey is an old friend, met once and known for years. It was with Gary that the Mystical Hexagram was written. He is a well known writer in his professional field and a poet. He released his first … Continue reading →

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#writephoto: Great easterly sea smoke – Lorraine

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Sue Vincent

Following the trail of death left behind by the crackling ice*, Culleen of clan Callawe’en and Vesta, her wolf-dog, turned towards the easterlies, crossing the abandoned lands under the fickle rising and falling of the middle’s sun. When they slept, … Continue reading →

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