THE THREE TULIPS

March 27, 2015

Once there were three tulip sisters, Lily, Rose, and Petunia. One fine summer day they decided to leave the bed and travel the world. ‘We wish to discover what lies beyond the path between the boulders,’ Lily announced to Mama and Papa Tulip. ‘But you can’t go,’ said Papa Tulip. ‘How will you walk?’ ‘On […]

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THE BLUE BINGLE – AN EDWARD LEAR HOMAGE TALE

March 24, 2015

The Blue Bingle Chapter One Next to a charming and nasty moat on a pile of sticks lived the blue bingle. It was larger than a hen, but smaller than a forest. In happy desperation one day the blue bingle decided to travel far, wide and narrow in order to satisfy its curiosity about the […]

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JILL – A NONSENSE POEM

March 19, 2015

Once Jill was lost on a mountain Once Jill was trapped in a fountain Once Jill was captured by geese Once Jill was jailed by her niece Therefore, naturally Jill now lives perched in a tree

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THE FEATHER

March 13, 2015
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There was once a sad Queen whose infant twin daughters had been taken off by the Feathered Dragon. The Queen spent her afternoons sighing in the palace garden. She could be soothed only by the singing of Melodia, one of her young handmaidens. So beautiful was Melodia’s voice that songbirds from all the world over […]

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THE GOLDEN SNAKE

March 3, 2015

Once deep down in the underground kitchen of a great palace a little sculger toiled for all she was worth day after day after day. The sculger, being the lowest servant possible, didn’t even have a name. The cook ordered her about with ‘Here, you!’ or ‘Hurry up with that, you!’ The sculger, up early […]

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