Tag Archives: danger

Friends With Flippers

Posted on May 25, 2024 by mitchteemley

The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. Zack and Gina’s friends Maerith and Shelcor agreed to sail them across a tumultuous seaway, but disappeared … Continue reading →

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Good Monsters?

Posted on May 18, 2024 by mitchteemley

Illustration by Nina Pommelin The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. Zack and Gina’s newfound friends Maerith and Shelcor had agreed to sail them … Continue reading →

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Take a Breath and Look Again

Posted on May 11, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: brainberries.co “Might-be monsters are nearly always worse than real ones.” ~The  Wishing Map φ

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Fear and Desire

Posted on May 4, 2024 by mitchteemley

Image by Juuso Hämäläinen “There is nothing we fear and desire in such equal measure as the unknown — perhaps because we know that without it, life is merely survival.” ~The Wishing Map φ

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Sailing Into the Unknown

Posted on May 4, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: Sisko1701 The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. Gina had been given a magical sword to aid in her search for the Questing … Continue reading →

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Courage Is…

Posted on April 27, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Courage is the greatest of all weapons, but it’s also an invisible one. You don’t know whether you have it until you’re called upon to use it.” ~The Wishing Map φ

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“My True Enemy”

Posted on April 27, 2024 by mitchteemley

Image by Dimitris Vetsikas The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. Gina and her brother Zack had been secretly sent to Ismara to retrieve … Continue reading →

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All the World’s in Your Hands

Posted on April 20, 2024 by mitchteemley

The Ten Kingdoms of Ismara The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. First, Gina and her brother had been sent to Ismara to retrieve … Continue reading →

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I Was Attacked and Lived to Tell the Tail!

Posted on April 16, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir It was late summer when Rick showed up, tragically bored. “Let’s go somewhere, anywhere.” Anywhere Trips With Rick were patently dangerous. Like the winter we’d awakened under four feet of snow. Or the time we’d driven to … Continue reading →

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Why the Way Is Hard

Posted on April 13, 2024 by mitchteemley

Photo by Clément Proust “Quests alter not just our actions, but us. For that is their true purpose.” ~The Wishing Map φ

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