Author: Avellina Balestri

  • The Eternal Robin of the Hood: His Origins and Continued Appeal

    BY NATHAN STONE Robin Hood has endured because we will always need Robin Hood and we will always need to look for him, not in the forest but in the mirror. Read more

  • The Farmer to Saint Swithin

    BY LAWRENCE “MACK” HALL Of your blest kindness send us sweet, soft showers, the kind that gently fall for hours and hours. Read more

  • Outlaw Maiden: A Robin Hood Story

    BY ELSIE GAGE “I’m afraid we will be found no matter where we try to hide. Even if we’re safe here, it’s only a matter of time until they find us.” Read more

  • Burnt: A Harry Potter Serial- Chapter 11: Hallowe’en

    By LastCrazyHorn Word Count: Rating: PG-13 for brief language, violence, and depictions of abuse Summary: A disabled Harry comes to Hogwarts story. Everyone expects him to be like his dad, but how can he be with such a different past? A Slytherin Harry takes on Hogwarts in an unusual way. “Filius, might I have a word Read more

  • The Jeweler’s Apprentice- Chapter 6

    BY E. KAISER WRITES “I have just come from a meeting with the representatives of the new ‘rulers’ of Othira, which is a repugnant duty.” Read more

  • Letters: A Robin Hood Story

    BY MARIA TERESA CARZON “My good friend, Little John, watch this arrow fly, and dig my grave on the spot where it lands.” Read more

  • A Witch and Equality: An Analysis of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

    BY SARAH LEVESQUE We need to stop this lie that some lives are more valuable than others, as God values us equally. Read more

  • Death and the Lion: A Crossover Serial- Chapter 21: Dropped In

    “Well, look at me, I look scary!” blurted Nico, nearly becoming frustrated at the fact that someone wasn’t scared of him. But, that was what he wanted, wasn’t it? Read more

  • A Fireside Tale

    BY VANESSA PARRY They say this was elvish land once. Hollin, it’s called on the maps but folks round here ain’t much into maps. Read more

  • Maiden, Mother, Crone

    BY TIMOTHY MATHER I am the ebb and flow of all nature, I am the lifeblood of all things. I am the first harvest of the land. Read more

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood: Costumes & Commentary

    It makes for a crazy anachronistic style, but hey, Robin Hood is a legend and doesn’t really belong to any one time period. Read more

  • Burnt: A Harry Potter Serial- Chapter 10: Magic Making

    By LastCrazyHorn Word Count: Rating: PG-13 for brief language, violence, and depictions of abuse Summary: A disabled Harry comes to Hogwarts story. Everyone expects him to be like his dad, but how can he be with such a different past? A Slytherin Harry takes on Hogwarts in an unusual way. By the time Harry came for Read more

  • Fall 2018: A Celtic Celebration

    Fall 2018: A Celtic Celebration Whether you can trace your ancestry back to the Celts, if you love Celtic music, mythology or anything about Celtic culture – past or present – then we want to hear from you for our fall issue! Read more

  • F&F Summer 2018: King Arthur & Robin Hood

    F&F Summer 2018: King Arthur & Robin Hood – Over 100 pages of facts and fiction about England’s Greatest Legends! Read more

  • Death and the Lion: A Crossover Serial- Chapter 20: The Other Doctor

    By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 31845 Rating: PG for scary situations Summary: Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, is used to being alone, until one day a girl with auburn hair waltzes into his life… The woman introduced herself to them as River Song as she hurried them off to a place Read more

  • Garments of Red: A Story of the Christian Martyrs

    “There are hundreds, thousands of zealots just waiting for someone to lead them into battle,” Juvid continued, throwing his arms out in frustration. “They’re hidden in the hills about Rome, lurking in caves like criminals, struggling to meet in secret. What has the Apostle told us to do? Nothing!” Read more

  • And the Skies Look On: A Lord of the Rings Poem

    White clouds, scudding swift, ‘cross a cobalt blue sky. He sits ‘neath an oak, book on knee. Dwarves, dragons and elves float before his minds eye. “Why does nothing strange happen to me?” Read more

  • JRR Tolkien’s University Model: An Authentic Liberal Arts Movement

    BY DANNY OSCAR RUTILIO The desire to renew the liberal arts can find a spirit of freshness and wild power in the enthusiasm of St. John Paul II in the “Letter to Artists.” Read more

  • A Terrible Good

    By Scott Sloan, January 13, 2016 Word Count: 210 Rating: G Summary: A thought-provoking poem of creation I saw eternity the other night, felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. When I hear the lay that once I saw her hand awake, Her form seems palpable, and near. And I music’s power obey. Read more

  • Burnt: A Harry Potter Serial- Chapter 9: Flying

    By LastCrazyHorn Word Count: Rating: PG-13 for brief language, violence, and depictions of abuse Summary: A disabled Harry comes to Hogwarts story. Everyone expects him to be like his dad, but how can he be with such a different past? A Slytherin Harry takes on Hogwarts in an unusual way. Their defense class was a joke Read more