![]() ![]() ![]() Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be kept-from each other or anyone else. If she has to lose, she will do it on her own terms, so she chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex. All that Raeanne sees is Daddy playing a game of favorites-and she is losing. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that’s where their differences begin.įor Kaeleigh, she’s the misplaced focus of Daddy’s love, intended for a mother whose presence on the campaign trail means absence at home. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family-on the surface. ![]() Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. ![]()
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Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and untethered to folklore or ancient religious traditions, like the Anglo-Saxon myths of The Lord of the Rings, the Christianity of C. ![]() What would a modern fantasy novel look like? I don’t mean one set in contemporary America, but one not beholden to the past: free from the vague medievalism of George R. To help us continue to pay our writers, please consider subscribing. This essay first appeared in the Full Stop Quarterly, Issue #8. ![]() ![]() They also know that he had an unsound relationship with his mother, and killed himself when she died. ![]() They’ll know he’s a barbarian, battles wizards and monsters, and that he has mighty thews, though not necessarily what thews are.īut if they’ve heard of Robert E Howard at all, chances are they’ll have the notion that he was a paranoid, gun-toting, redneck savant who locked himself up at night and typed up the stories dictated by his ghostly barbarian muse. It would be difficult to find someone who has not heard of Conan, be it through the comics, films or abundant paperbacks. With these words, Texan writer Robert E Howard introduced his most famous hero to the readers of the now legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales, 80 years ago now. “Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jewelled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.” Frank Frazetta’s iconic cover for the first Conan paperback ![]() (This article appeared previously in Fortean Times, in January 2013, and was nominated for a Robert E Howard Foundation Award). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its greatest gift is the comfort if not the joy of transformation. She holds post-graduate degr Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning contemporary Philippine-Australian writer who has had 4 novels, 6 poetry books and a collection of short stories published, and 10 dramatic works performed. And if we’re lucky, joy can even be multiplied a hundredfold, so we may have reserves in the cupboard for the lean times.’ Born in Tabaco in the Philippines province of Albay, Merlinda Bobis attended Bicol University High School then completed her B.A. ![]() In an inspired moment, we almost believe that anguish can be made bearable and injustice can be overturned, because they can be named. Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning contemporary Philippine-Australian writer who has had 4 novels, 6 poetry books and a collection of short stories published, and 10 dramatic works performed. ![]() |