Category: Fiction
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To Love and to Honour: A Review of Robin McKinley’s “Beauty”
“I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour, but few people except perhaps the minister who had baptized all three of us remembered my given name.” As a very young child, Honour renames herself “Beauty,” a nickname which sticks despite the fact that she is hardly the…
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gifted
“The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.” Proverbs 20:9 I wrote the fantasy novel Worlds Unseen six years ago. At the time, I had some loose ideas about what it could say–besides telling a good story, which was my first priority! It touched on some of my…
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Flashpoint: A Review
Review of Flashpoint by Frank Creed Review by Rachel Starr Thomson The year is 2036. The place, Chicago—under control of a worldwide government called the One State. A father drives his children through the rain and drops them off under a bridge before fleeing the “Peacekeepers” on his trail. Little do Dave and Jen know…
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Heather and Snow and One who Lives
From one of my favourite books, George MacDonald’s “Heather and Snow,” which is slated for publication by Little Dozen Press in the none-too-distant future. It is the story of Kirsty Barclay and her half-witted brother Steenie, whose chief joy is to wander the Highland mountains at night in search of “the bonny man” and His…