Once upon a time, there was a girl who escaped the Village. She ran a lighthouse. Her friends who escaped their own villages to live in freedom helped her build it. The first friend that the girl met outside the Village was the mermaid, and she found her because she loved the sea. The mermaidContinueContinue reading “Farewell to the Mermaid”
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The Fairy in the Cocoon
Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived in a lighthouse, next to a rocky coastline. The lighthouse girl often entertained travelers seeking shelter from storms and pulled the shipwrecked out of murky waters. But one of the most interesting friends she met after she left the Village was not either of these.ContinueContinue reading “The Fairy in the Cocoon”
The Tea Maker and the Lighthouse Keeper
Another friend blended their own story into Cynthia Jeub’s lighthouse story and my lighthouse girl story. Reprinted with permission. (Cynthia Jeub is now known as Artemis Stardust.) Once upon a time there was a tea maker. They were a very ordinary tea maker, but they did have one unusual skill: they were very good atContinueContinue reading “The Tea Maker and the Lighthouse Keeper”
The Lighthouse and the Pirate
A short story by Cynthia Jeub (now known as Artemis Stardust), written before my lighthouse girl story last June. Reprinted with permission. It thought it was a brick. The brick was chipped, so it didn’t quite fit in with the other bricks in the shipment. It thought maybe the builder would cast it away forContinueContinue reading “The Lighthouse and the Pirate”
The Lighthouse Girl
There was once was a little girl, raised in the Village. The Village was a utopia, walled off for protection and insulated from the world. Even the families in the girl’s section of the Village did not see each other very often, but lived peaceably, like hermits, in accordance with the Code. When the girlContinueContinue reading “The Lighthouse Girl”
Eleanor Skelton 