Author:
Alex McGilvery has been reading since before he can remember, and writing almost that long. He has published 18 books and is author and editor at his imprint Celticfrog Publishing. He lives in Kamloops with his dog and the stories clawing their way out of his head.

The Frog Prince, Snow White, Cinderella, everyone is familiar with these stories, but not the way they are told in this collection. What if the Frog Prince was really only a frog? Would it be so bad if Cinderella stayed past midnight? Snow White is staying in the woods with the dwarves, but these aren’t her grandmother’s dwarves. Read these tales and more.

Tales of Light and Dark

Queen Gillian sat at the oak table in her council chamber and played at jacks while her advisors argued amongst themselves. She was young to be Queen - not yet a decade, but her father had died in the same plague that had devastated the male population of her kingdom. 


"I say that we muster our troops and meet them at the border. We will push them into the river or die trying."


"We don't have enough men to hold the border. We must pull back and prepare the castle for a siege."


Jill finished her eightsies and put the jacks and the ball away.


"We have lost enough men to the plague," the young Queen said, "We will not throw any more lives away. This is what we will do."


Prince Johan rode at the head of his army of unwanted extra sons from his land. 


Chapter 11: Jacks