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The Suffering Innocents
It is easy to become jaded, seeing all the horrors of war on our Facebook wall. It is easy to lose empathy…
Bright Week
The Bright Seven Days The first week of Easter is like an extended single day of feasting. Joyful and bright. According to a pious…
How Iconographers Draw the Soul
In my second novel (tentatively titled The Garden in the Heart of the World), one of the characters is given a choice–to remain inside…
Seven Ways Russians Used to Celebrate the Coming of Spring
As I’ve begun to delve deeply into my second novel, I’m considering using the time of the year as a contrast to…
The Book of the New Sun
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe My rating: 5 of 5 stars In the fantasy genre, coming of age…
Things you never knew about the Russian cradle
A criticism of an early version of my first novel was that it was not grounded enough, too “out there,” too interested…