Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Shards of Glass: Chapter 1

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       I lost Kai when we were nine. He went missing when we were seventeen.      He was my best friend and brother and half my heart. It...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

The Snow Queen: Story the Seventh: Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There at Last

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The final part of the story begins by taking us back to Kai, who we haven’t seen in four sections. He’s in the Snow Queen’s palace, which is...

SEVENTH STORY: OF THE PALACE OF THE SNOW QUEEN AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE AT LAST

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  (Over the next seven weeks, I’ll be posting both the text of the Snow Queen, and my thoughts on it. This is the text of the seventh and fi...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

The Snow Queen: Story the Sixth: The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman

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Gerda and the reindeer reach Lapland, where they meet n old woman in a small hut dressing fish, she tells them that the Snow Queen was in La...

SIXTH STORY: THE LAPLAND WOMAN AND THE FINLAND WOMAN

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  (Over the next seven weeks, I’ll be posting both the text of the Snow Queen, and my thoughts on it. This is the text of the sixth section....
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The Snow Queen: Story the Fifth: The Little Robber Girl

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This section opens with Gerda’s coach being attacked by robbers, and all the men the princess sent with her being murdered—a somewhat jarrin...

FIFTH STORY: THE LITTLE ROBBER GIRL

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  (Over the next seven weeks, I’ll be posting both the text of the Snow Queen, and my thoughts on it. This is the text of the fifth section....