Santa Claus and Sex Trafficking
August 25, 2025
Their father planned to sell their bodies so they would have money for food. … More Santa Claus and Sex Trafficking
But Keep Writing
June 12, 2024
The house may be burning But keep writing. Write by the glow of the windows, the roof alight like a red-haired girl, you in the back yard, safe. Great advice from poet Margaret Hasse. It’s one of those poems in which the title is the first line of the poem: “The House May Be Burning.” … More But Keep Writing
Philosophy on a Foreign Moon [Book Review]
August 2, 2023
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]
A Missed Opportunity [Book Review]
July 24, 2023
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.
Every Word A Prayer [Book Review]
July 17, 2023
“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]
The Stars Fight For Us
March 13, 2023
Are the stars angels?
Do the Heavens fight for us? … More The Stars Fight For Us
Beam Me Out of Here, Mr. O’Brien [Book Review of Warp]
February 13, 2023
“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]
Return to Doxacon
July 12, 2022
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
Love With The Faeries Never Grows Weary
June 17, 2022
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.
The Untiring Ones
June 17, 2022
“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
Cynthia June Long