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

I was once where you are; watching the words go up into the blue like so many soap bubbles. You feel no care, no urgency, but be warned! in the right hands even soap bubble might be dangerous.


You say the words are floating to no purpose, your attention is fleeting, and there is a limit to how many words I have to tell my story?


Sadly, you are right, the days of the garrulous old narrator are past, so we start.


One of the times that I was young, Yes, I mean exactly that, I have been young many times; young as a flower, young as a tree, even young as a rock. This time I was young as the youngest son of a rice farmer.


Look if you are going to keep interrupting, we will never get started. Watch the words, count them if you must and we will see where they take us.


Chapter 12: Learning Honour, Part 1