Cozy, whimsical, and so sweet it will make your teeth ache, A Tale of Princes, Poets, and Personal Interest aims to be your newest comfort read. It is a lighthearted story of growth, understanding, and finding love in unexpected places. Cherre is a dwarven princess who has put her passion for engineering before her duties as princess for her whole life, but she no longer has the luxury of messing around: her arranged marriage will be set in stone at the close of a year-long international s...

Cozy, whimsical, and so sweet it will make your teeth ache, A Tale of Princes, Poets, and Personal Interest aims to be your newest comfort read. It is a lighthearted story of growth, understanding, and finding love in unexpected places. Cherre is a dwarven princess who has put her passion for engineering before her duties as princess for her whole life, but she no longer has the luxury of messing around: her arranged marriage will be set in stone at the close of a year-long international s...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the...

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and narratives of many wise talents.The evil stain of Racism blights much of human...

At a glance the old farm fence is overgrown and unkempt. Nearly unrecognizable now, its usefulness seems to have ebbed away with the passing years. Or has it?In her poem The Fence Row, author Lydia Finch Johnston invites readers to linger a bit in the magnificence of nature, wherever it is found, and to reflect on the simple truth that despite appearances, when left undisturbed, our natural world follows its divine course to bear fruit beyond measure.Johnstons gentle cadenc...