by C Day-Lewis
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The Old Dancing Tree
Open Day
My son turns sixteen in a month. He’s just finished his first round of mock-exams and earned some impressive results. His gift is for mathematics which suggests, if nothing else, that skills and talents are not inheritable traits.
Universal Horror
Whiled Away
Yet Do I Marvel
I’d never heard of Countee Cullen until today.
Continue reading “Yet Do I Marvel”Horns of the Hunter
A scurrilous in-world artefact from my long-running fantasy RPG campaign (ridiculously vast campaign lore here). It’s a slanderous folk song from about a century-and-a-half prior to the events of the campaign, addressing the rumours prevalent at the time that Riala of House Genlith (their banner symbol a wolf) was cheating on her husband the Crown Prince Elderan with a lord of House Malmor (banner symbol a raven).
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