http://jackfishcrow.com Fables, Fortunes, & Follies Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:43:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Mild Caution From The Author: The following story, unlike every other story I have written for the past year, is not a fairy tale. I do not consider its content graphic or otherwise disturbing, but for those who have read my work prior to these fairy tales, be aware ... http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/85 If anybody has been wondering what I've been up to the past week or two, you can find it here. Or, if you look to the side, you'll find a link to the new bookstore. It's a book full of short little fortunes, which have never appeared on this site ... http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/83 If there was ever a time for reading through the archives, now is it, since I have just spent the past week or so editing everything older than February. http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/81 In the lands of the East, where the fingers of the Ocean combed through the earth in many rivers, and the sun pulled the water from the very soil itself so that it stood in the air during the hottest months of the year, there was a great forest where ... http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/80 A princess lived in the highest tower of the northernmost island of the great Island Nations. This island was the smallest and the coldest of the isles, where the Lady Night would come to rest her weary legs for many weeks in the winter, and where all the towers glittered ... http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/79 Before the dark things were driven into the ocean, when they still hid from the light and hated all the land and all life, they would take men and women from their homes and families. The dark things took all that was living and all creatures which walked in the ... http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/78 In the second golden age of mankind, in the great Western Desert, men built a city out of sun beams and the stars of the lady Night's cloak. This desert city was new each day and never the same city in the day as in the night. Some years after ... http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/77 There's going to be a bit of a break from my doing regular updates for awhile. Meanwhile, if anyone wants to make it easier for me to do regular updates, they could do so by mentioning or linking to this site, posting comments, or dropping some money in the tip jar. http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/76 The Sorceress They descended from the tower arm in arm, brother and sister. As he passed the other rooms on the way down, the Jackfish saw only cold forged iron, coal, and steel, but he thought perhaps he was looking at different rooms. The door at the bottom of the stairs ... http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/75 The Room in the Tower Jackfish Crow wasted not a day, nor an hour, nor a minute, but straightaway set off to find the secret places where all the castle doors led. He waited and watched these places in the deep, dark woods, and his patience was rewarded one morning when ... http://jackfishcrow.com/archives/74