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Escaping to Real Life Fairytale Places

Every year around this time, I start planning holiday getaways (or plan to plan them, anyway). But having cut my literary teeth on fantasies, it’s fairytale settings I dream of escaping to, or even making my new home. Say, a … Continue reading

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Turning the Page to Disaster

Artwork by AlectorFencer 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 an attempt to break free from the naims (gnomes) who’d … Continue reading

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Fairytales Don’t Last Forever

Artwork by Madame Thenadier 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 had finally become human again and … Continue reading

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It’s Nice to Be a Hero

Source: feedly.com 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. Delaying her search for her brother Zack, Gina traveled with … Continue reading

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Real Life Fairytale Places

At the beginning of every year I plan, or rather plan to plan. But unofficially I dream of escape, and having cut my literary teeth on fairytales and fantasies, it’s fairytale settings like these I long to visit, or even … Continue reading

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The Wishing Map 36

Have you ever experienced the seductive charm of being “celebrated”?  Who doesn’t, on some level, desire to be a hero?

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The Wishing Map 74

Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Seventeen: Naimian Previously: Abandoning his oddly-behaving sister Gina, Zack befriended a party of naims (gnomes) and amazed them with his gift of storytelling. ⇔ ⇔ … Continue reading

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