Tag Archives: Fairy Tale

Parsley and Partiality… Stuart France

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* … “I’ve answered two of the questions,” smiles Wen. “You mean you’ve found solutions to two of the problems, and which would they be then?” “I know where the tower is situated.” “Ah, I thought you had the air … Continue reading →

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Keys to the House of Don: Crucible… Stuart France

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* ‘…Such a situation invites the approach of treating the various versions  as at least theoretically, the garbled remnants of an episodic whole. While such a method can never lead us to the definitive story but merely and at every … Continue reading →

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Keys to the House of Don: Heart… Stuart France

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* …’Wen is still worried about the insanity of it all… but fairy stories only appear insane to us now because we have become so separated from truth… As children we accepted their subconscious logic intuitively. It both satisfied our … Continue reading →

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Keys to the House of Don… Stuart France

Posted on March 30, 2019 by Sue Vincent

…“I do have my reputation as an I.M.O.M to consider.” “An I.M.O.M?” “An International Man of Mystery. And there, if you only knew it, is the first key.” “Which is?” Don reaches ‘blind’ behind his head and extracts from the … Continue reading →

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Dryad… Stuart France

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* …That night the world took on strange colours and my dream-girl became a tree. If I were a Druid I would say that I had fallen under the sway of a wood nymph, a Dryad… She is certainly very … Continue reading →

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Tom Banjo… Stuart France

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* Down the dark stairwell,  a silent progress plotted. ‘Twas death in that  house were Tom but spotted. …He reached the door, a tree clad Owl hooted. Three seconds more and Tom was Seven League Booted. One stride it took … Continue reading →

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Ancestral Dawn… Stuart France

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* What is interior to us, Is exterior to them. * What is exterior to us Is interior to them. * Reblogged from Stuart France

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Paul Andruss reviews The Initiate…

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Reblogging this splendid review by Paul Andruss of The Initiate. Paul Andruss, is the author of Thomas the Rhymer & Finn Mac Cool, has been a popular guest on the blog. He made our day when he sent us this… … Continue reading →

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Of Trolls and Sustenance… Stuart France

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Tomf, the Troll, rises from the river bed after a long, long, sleep. He is feeling grumpy but only because he is hungry. Off in search of chocolate, cake, liqourice, orange juice, tobacco and cough sweets he goes… Oh, … Continue reading →

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The Marsh King’s Daughter III… Stuart France

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Hi-ho the Carrion Crow, bow and bend to me… * …There usually is. Perhaps one reason for the tale’s obscurity these days is its perceived, overtly, Christian message. This takes the form of a priest who is captured and tortured … Continue reading →

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