Mytho-fantastical

My friend, Joel, has a great fantasy story, Skaftna’s Doom, appearing today at Yesteryear Fiction.

I have to believe reading it on a day that only exists once every four years makes it that much more fantastical.

Go check it out!

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My elder two children participate in a statewide academic competition for held by their private school association. Both of them signed up for poetry writing, Winfield for the HS division, and Joseph for the JH div. Unfortunately, the person who proctored the session (both divisions combined), gave Joseph the HS guidelines, so he [...]

Approaching Perfection

Last night I read what may be the most harrowing sentence (of non-Biblical origin) I have ever read.

My dear, my very dear, Wormwood, my poppet, my pigsnie.

It comes at the beginning of the final missive that makes up C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters.

Here one begins to understand the true nature of evil and [...]