Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Tale of Many Tales

Today, in the spirit of tales told through the ages, I’m highlighting a work of nearly endless variety that tells of events from Creation all the way to the reign of Caesar Augustus. It’s a book you know even if you’ve never read it—because it has served as the...

From Seed to Story: Remembering Your Core

There was a spark inside of you to write your story, whether nonfiction or fiction. It feels mysterious and numinous, like it dropped down from heaven, and now it burns within you. It may be an image, a what-if scenario, an event, or a mashup of ideas from your...

All Faerie Is Apocalypse

There is only a small sliver of the spectrum of light that we can see. If we could extend the ability of our eyes just a little further into infrared, we would see one another walking around as glowing wells of heat like gods. Extend it further up the spectrum and we...