Tag: growing up

July 22, 2025

Song of Silas *Teaser*

The concave glass spin in a dainty gold setting. Mareth watched it closely with his whiteout eye. The glass cast an eerie green-purple glow which danced strange across the young boy’s too-thin face. The room was close and filled with smoke puffed from a pipe lolling in the wizard’s mouth. The smoke broke around the…

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August 19, 2024

The Long Road to Literary Joy – Escaping the Slough of Bad YA

A Child’s Beginnings Some of my earliest reads in life were Narnia and Lord of the Rings. My mother read C.S. Lewis to us when I was quite small, but then I didn’t do much reading at all for quite a few years. I have spoken before about moving from Colorado to South Dakota when…

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