secure this beckoning sunshine

Results must be replicable to be reliable. That's how the scientific method works.

I have a second Patreon (to keep poetry and bloggery separate), and the blog post series discussed there will be kicking off on sunbowpublications.com tomorrow.

You speak of 'spinning glamorie' or 'weaving glamorie' as though spinning and weaving are arts comparable to that of creating glamorie. You say this who have never done any threadwork in your life. Here: pass the shuttle between the warp threads and watch the thread grow too taut here, the weave too loose there. Here: give the spindle a twist and watch the infant yarn fall to pieces.

You say the effort of glamorie is comparable to that of threadwork. You, sir, lie. If glamorie were difficult as threadwork, you would compel me to do it, rather than forbidding me.


crossposted from conallpublications.com


glamorie by Alex Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

( The doorbell dinged, and Hitomi looked up )



Speaking in Flowers by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

( Once there was a little mermaid who saved a young fisherman from a storm and promptly fell in love with him. )



The Food of Love by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Every morning a crow comes and sits at my window. One for sorrow.

( two for joy )



Three Crows by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

I wrote two short stories for the collection A Dinner of Herbs, which is now available on Amazon, paperback and Kindle. The only ebook format currently available is Kindle, but there's no DRM so buying it and converting it to a format suiting your ereader is a definite possibility. If you don't have an ereader, Kindle for PC is free, or there's always the paperback.

My stories are "To the Devil and Back", a lesbian retelling of "Rapunzel" set in 1750s England, and "Pray You, Love, Remember", an original concerning a mortal woman raised by fae and trying to balance both her worlds. My friend Anne B. Walsh's are "The Wisdom to Know the Difference", in which a young witch in training does her first major magic, and "Born to Set It Right", in which a Damsel and Companion on Quest with a Hero to defeat a Villain deconstruct fantasy tropes.

I hope you enjoy.

Two cities stand on a plain.

( Inhabitants of the city in the west look eastward with scorn. ) What brazen people live in Inferno, and how marvelous a place is Paradiso!

Inhabitants of the city in the east look westward with pity. What tragedy, they say. What unnecessary shame. Do you know, they actually think it's possible to be expected, required to have sex? How horrible to be someone who is expected, required to be ashamed of who one is! Or of what one does, when what one does harms no one! What small dull painful lives people live in Hell, and how marvelous a place is Heaven!



Walls of Jasper by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.