Among the many things I love about Christmas is the way it brings families together. If you’re Way Up North like I am, this coming together is usually a result of a snowstorm-imposed quarantine. In other places, it’s under other, warmer, circumstances. Man, I envy you people … Regardless, the whole houseful-of-folks experience is part […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: After you read this lovely story, scroll down to download Jamin Still’s magical painting as a free wallpaper. All that his unquelled grief bestowed, and love, that doubles grief -Boethius In a tower, in a village, in a kingdom by the sea, was a lyre unlike any other. Over the door of the […]

“Come,” they told me. The three strangers passing through my city that night. They stopped to listen as I played my Derbekkeh, my hand drum. My only possession. It isn’t much, but it is all that I have. And it is my hope of a future. I make noise to make my living. “Come?” I […]

Once there was a girl who wanted, more than anything, to sail around the world. It is a strange wish. A wish for an extraordinary thing. She stands at the window of her house, at the very edge of her village, staring out into the sea. She waits for her father. But she knows that […]