The Fellowship of the Ring: The Ring Goes South
Another stop on a reader's journey through The Lord of the Rings
Matt Civico
The Gateway Chronicles & The Demands of Friendship
Originally published in Area of Effect magazine
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I made my very first friend in grade one with a simple offer: “Wanna play?” As I
approach my thirties, I wish making friends was still that easy. The Six, the
first book in K.B. Hoyle’s The Gateway Chronicles series,
What I Learned from An Afternoon with a Guru in a Garden
> “The two facts which attract almost every normal person to children are, first,
that they are very serious, and secondly, that they are in consequence very
happy...”
— G.K. Chesterton (From the essay “In Defence of Baby Worship”)
I spent a week in Vancouver, BC earlier this month to
Discos & Dragons: Friendship as Generosity
Simple acts of friendship can be incredibly generous
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Council of Elrond
Another stop on a reader's journey through The Lord of the Rings
Hoping in Hyrule
Can Breath of the Wild help us endure life's hurts?
Failing to Hope the Best in My Neighbours
Originally published at Fathom
[https://www.fathommag.com/stories/failing-to-hope-the-best-in-my-neighbors]
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You really didn’t have to do this,” John, my downstairs neighbor assures me.
“It’s very generous of you, thank you.” Later he tells me the homemade pizza I
handed him was delicious—the best crust he’s
Playing "Light Fall" Means Accepting Failure
I tend to associate ease with skill, so I expect a successful journey to a smooth one.
What Happened When I Attended A French Church
Hard things, but good things.
Story Creature
Our heroes rail against death because it ought not to be the rule of the world, not forever