Tag: folk

An unnamed town, an unnamed state, presumably in the sun-warmed Midwest, the fields full and unharvested even in late October when the annual ritual begins, the rise of

It was a teenage prank, a momentary thrill with a sugar rush to follow, Claire using Danny to distract the shopkeeper while she filled her bag with Opal

The forested hills and valleys of Scotland, full of mist and mystery, the hunting ground for father Don and his three sons, John, Henry and Vince, youngest and

The year is 1617 though the time is in many ways irrelevant in that the story could be told earlier or later, a young man raised in isolation

Once upon a time the child in the red jumper stood alone in the green forest staring at the statue, a carved image of grace; which of them

Most tragedies are preventable, but for Cora Loewen the burden is worse for knowing the responsibility is hers alone, awoken from a drugged stupor at the home of

An encounter like something out of a romance novel, quite literally bumping into each other in the library, the researcher visiting her mother’s homeland of Denmark for the

It’s apparently a blessing in disguise for Jamie and Maya, the death of his great-aunt in rural Ireland giving the young couple a place to move into as

Incongruous in her red raincoat and her hiking boots with their red laces among the browns and greens of nature, the grass and bushes, mosses and rocks of

An illness with no name, of myriad debilitating symptoms but no underlying pathology which can be identified by her doctor, it has blighted the life of children’s fashion