The Ballad of the Crumbs
There once upon a legend livedA tiny grey-furred mouse,Who found it his sole want and goalTo flee from Human’s house. He’d high-cocked ears upon his head,A finely swishing tail,And the fastest legs e’re known to…
Tag: Clare-Therese
Anyone: A Fan’s Review of the Classic Television Series “Emergency!”
It was a typical afternoon; pita pizzas in our oven, the sky outside growing dusky, and us four kids gathered in our den to soak up our week-daily episode of Emergency! Since the fateful…
Hope: The Battle of Helm’s Deep through the Eyes of Haleth, Son of Háma
Night fell like a shroud over Helm’s Deep. A heavy cloud cover, bringing early darkness, promised rain. As men rushed in all directions through the smoky night air, I stood uncertainly…
Daniel Boone: A Fan’s Review of a Classic TV Series
A few years ago, if you had walked into our living room on any given weekday morning, your attention would’ve been drawn to the old television screen by one of seven differing versions of a…
How We Begin: The Story of Felix and Adauctus, Martyrs
Around the year 303 AD, under the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian, the Christian priest Felix was captured and ordered to offer incense to idols of Romans gods. The statues fell shattered at his…
The Only One: A Poem Dedicated to Homeless Veterans
Am I the only one who notices your eyes Cracked open by the war? Young against the pain Spilled out with the grief Dried up in the coming home Dropped to the ground And forgotten…
More than Memory
Is there a day when bruises heal, War's fingerprints cease to reveal A frail survivor left alone, The loneliness that I now feel? - And is this grieving all my own, Locked within my skin…
Estel: A Lord of the Rings Story
Her skin was paler than the clouds that had shrouded Imladris from the sun these past months. She was fading from his grasp, like snow melting as it impacted his palm. “I choose a…
An Extract from the Files of George Whitby, Investigator: A Mystery Based on the Game “Clue”
You’re tangled in your latest murder file when the telephone begins to shrill and rattle against the hook like a panicking bird. Reluctantly, you pluck up the earpiece and pull the receiver to…