Tag Archives: fairies

Here’s Why Fairies and Fairytales Matter

Posted on May 30, 2025 by mitchteemley

People have always dreamed of fantastical creatures, terrifying and gentle, hideous and beautiful. But especially of fairies. Why? Because they’re the ones most like us. Fairies can be good or bad, kind or selfish, pure or besmirched. Just like us. … Continue reading →

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An Accidental Hero

Posted on September 2, 2023 by mitchteemley

Artwork by WillOBrien 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 the entire novel, begin here. Newly arrived at the island kingdom of Sur Kellan, Zack and Gina … Continue reading →

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A Thunderstruck Conscience

Posted on September 10, 2022 by mitchteemley

Photo by Johannes Plenio 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 the entire novel, begin here. Zack was turning into a cloud shepherd, and in the … Continue reading →

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Friend or Foe, How Can You Know?

Posted on July 23, 2022 by mitchteemley

Source: YouTube 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 the entire novel, begin here. Gina had unwittingly adopted a dragon, making her its dragonmeer and deeply offending the … Continue reading →

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When You Offend My Friends, You Offend Me!

Posted on June 18, 2022 by mitchteemley

Image by HealthyBacon 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 the entire novel, begin here. While Zack was on his way back to Ismara to search … Continue reading →

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Never Insult a Pixie

Posted on April 16, 2022 by mitchteemley

Illustration by trungtinart 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 the entire novel, begin here. In the hope of saving her brother Zack, Gina Dore had … Continue reading →

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The Wishing Map 44

Posted on December 21, 2016 by mitchteemley

Have you ever become friends with someone so entirely different than you that simply knowing them altered your view of the world?

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The Wishing Map 26

Posted on August 17, 2016 by mitchteemley

Have you ever discovered that, while you weren’t looking, the things that mattered most to you had changed?

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The Wishing Map 16

Posted on November 26, 2014 by mitchteemley

Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Four: Melcarhassen Previously: Pondering Zack’s words about being from “another world,” the great bird Aviar realized that “the Time of an End and a New … Continue reading →

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