The sapling shoves up through the split in the countertop, tilting the coffee grinder aside, dark leaves brushing the bottom of the...

I have a strange fondness for ambulatory or sentient houses. Maybe that’s why I keep picking up Howl’s Moving Castle for another read....

My mother used to cut my sister’s hair in the garden so she could be seen through the neighbor’s window. Our neighbor was a fairy. “If a...

TL;DR: History--but with dragons! (But seriously, the review is less than 500 words, surely you can manage the time to read it?) Captain...

My daughter drew an interesting and strange creature a few weeks ago, and I started asking her questions about it, trying to draw a story...

Jayber Crow is the story of a barber in the town of Port William who falls in love with another man’s wife. …Doesn’t that sound awful?...

Once I served the Emperor. Once, when I was whole, when I was worthy. Once, before I was cursed. It was the day before I was to lose...

C.S. Lewis used to read The Man Born to be King yearly during the Lenten season to prepare his mind for Easter. If I had been likewise...