Sing we now all of our joy,Dance we all togetherThrough the rocky mountain cleft,'mid the purple heather.Merry our folk, with clasped handsOur feet sink down like roots;Morning wind is in our hair,Night wind in our flutes.'twixt day and night we hold our jig'tween night and day our harrowOur tune has crooked you at the knee,Our …
Category: Fairytales
On the Supposed Unsuitability of Fairytales for Children
Shortly after supporting a local library event promoting fairytale literature, the folklore department at Lightfoot College received an animated communication from a very concerned mother regarding, in short, the "unsuitability of fairytales for children." As this seems to be a rather widespread idea (I might mention the Daily Telegraph article of February 12, 2012) as well as an oddly …
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A Tale from the Waterwood
Previously posted to my DeviantArt page, along with an illustration.* * *The Indarin say that when the Wizard of the Waterwood wished to select his heir, he summoned his three disciples, that he might set them a task which would judge between them. On his …
The Moral of the Metalmancer
One chilly Autumn's day, the Metalmancer was busily at work crafting things in his dark laboratory deep underground, when the noise of a great weeping and lament from someplace not very far away, yet not very near, began to disturb him at his work. It was the fairies who lived in the woods that grew …
Niata’s Garden
Niata’s Garden for Charles de Lint, and D. H. Lawrencefor my Grandma& for anyone who has ever tended a garden with me 1 The garden is what ultimately sold me on that particular boarding house. I almost walked past the place, the first time I was down here – jet-lagged, trying to sort out the …
Encounters
Composed by David Sewall and myself during a day of mulching a friend's garden, Encounters won 9th place in the 2002 Writers' Digest Short Story Competition out of some 19,000 entries. As we began work that morning, I mentioned to David that I'd like to write a fairy tale "with a haunting ending." This is …
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON 