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  • Book Review: The Gravity of Existence by Christins Sng

    The collection is dark and filled with eerie humor, but there is hope in the poems as well. World”, Sng writes “I cast a magic spell / To manifest my grief / Creating a new world / Full of rage-filled She lives, happily ever after, with her husband and three sons in a house filled with fairy tale books

  • Cinderella's Hearth: Sloan Birthday Cake

    sugar 1 cup sour cream 1 cup vegetable oil 4 large eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract Butter Icing: 1 ½ cups milk While cake is cooling, make the icing (we often make the cake the day before the icing): Whisk together milk Blend with the thickened milk mixture until thick and smooth.

  • The Word, The Wolf & The Magic Mirror by Liz Bragdon

    midnight til dawn, forgetting our shoes and ourselves, bloodying our toes without a care for the doctor’s bill sleeping briar roses, the child you once upon a time were wonders when you’ll stop following crumbs and pills grass, sing the birds, churn the waters, flame the fire, and strike the blossom up through the strip mall magic mirror I conjure the words from each precious heart thud spiraling rosy life through my 60,000 miles

  • FTM Flash Fiction Contest Winners

    Salt is essential to the life of a man but kills the poor slug that eats the same cabbages. Lortz - Leila Murton Poole Deborah Sage - Marcia Sherman - Margaret Fisher Squires Laren Stover - Brittany

  • The Song of The Rain by Faniyi Oluwatomiwa Elijah

    Millions of massive rain-drops have fallen all around They came dancing on household and hid in the ground with anything for keys Beating tunes upon the window How sweet the music of the rain that the sound fills

  • Throwback Thursday: Hansel and Gretel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1857

    Hansel bent over and filled his jacket pockets with them, as many as would fit. Suddenly the door opened, and a woman, as old as the hills and leaning on a crutch, came creeping out Then she served them a good meal: milk and pancakes with sugar, apples, and nuts. "These are better than pebbles," said Hansel, filling his pockets. Gretel said, "I will take some home with me as well," and she filled her apron full.

  • Throwback Thursday: The Knot of Toads by Jennifer A. McGowan

    Nearer she crept and nearer, fingers idly playing, till she saw a knot of toads: one large one surrounded the bank, where the smaller toads with their high-pitched croaking sounded like they were laughing, till cried the miller’s daughter. “Of course!” “But that would kill you!” she said. “Nevertheless,” he insisted. His words turned and turned themselves in her mind till, suddenly, she had an idea.

  • Aren’t They Beautiful?

    Also, and this is very exciting, Lissa will be giving away a swag box filled with Glass and Feathers

  • The Fragrant Month of May: Folklore, Poetry & More by Amanda Bergloff

    or jump over embers for luck, and cattle would be made to jump over small bonfires to protect their milk The celebration is also rooted in agriculture since springtime festivities, filled with song and dance A cold May is kindly and fills the barn finely.

  • Book Review: House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

    Fans of House of Salt and Sorrow will be delighted with Craig’s new book which is filled with romance beautifully rendered world, and, because Verity was seeing the mainland for the first time, her descriptions filled

  • Celebrating Fall! Quotes Art & Folklore by Amanda Bergloff

    Milne Fall is a magical time of year when the wild beauty of nature takes one last colorful breath before ~ Mary Howitt OCTOBER October glows on every cheek, October shines in every eye, While up the hill and Twisting, turning through the air Till all the trees stand stark and bare.

  • Kate's Picks: My Mom's Okra Soup

    The ham bone adds a meaty richness to it that makes it filling, and the vegetables add a bit of bulk Okra can be slimy, and I don’t love it fried or in almost any form, but tens of millions of people disagree

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