A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is speculative fiction at its best, fiction which explores the nature of society and the complexity of family while plumbing the depths of friendship and what it means to be human. … More Philosophy on a Foreign Moon [Book Review]
Ingredients: 1. Take a Greek Orthodox girl and her father, fleeing the Greco-Turkish war. 2. They resettle in Oxford, England. It’s the 1920’s. 3. She meets C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Results: Paul Kearney’s The Wolf in the Attic.
“That’s why we tell stories,” Aunt Jem said. “To remind us there’s another way. A better way. We tell stories so we can find it.” … More Every Word A Prayer [Book Review]
Are the stars angels?
Do the Heavens fight for us? … More The Stars Fight For Us
“I had this dream we were all on the Enterprise, from Star Trek. . .” … More Beam Me Out of Here, Mr. O’Brien [Book Review of Warp]
I’m so happy to share that I’ll be returning to Doxacon this November to present “Will the Fairies be Redeemed?” … More Return to Doxacon
William Butler Yeats calls the fair folk the Untiring Ones. Read more about the passionate, unambivalent fey here. From William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight.
“If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them.” … More The Untiring Ones
The Irish believe that the fairies are the fallen angels who were cast down by the Lord God out of heaven for their sinful pride. And some fell into the sea, and some on the dry land, and some fell deep down into hell, and the devil gives to these knowledge and power, and sends … More God Preserve Me From the Children of Pride
Both St. Patrick and Fionn mac Cumhail prophesied about St. Kevin!
A poem by the author. … More St. Kevin of Glendalough
Cynthia June Long 