Category: Dragons
Dragonish Thoughts in Our Hearts: Dragons as Mirrors of the Human
“Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; / If we perish in the seeking, why,...
Desolation
For over a decade I have been an educator in one fashion or another. My teaching has ranged from...
Excerpt from The Chaos Spiral
This is an excerpt from Adam Brackin’s new Arthur Evans novel, THE CHAOS SPIRAL, coming soon from...
Wangerin and Wyrm
In the beast fables The Book of the Dun Cow and The Book of Sorrows, Walter Wangerin, Jr. crafted...
A Tale of Two Dragons: Reflections on Corruption, Conviction, Grace, and Sacrament
At the conclusion of The Hobbit, the reader is treated to one of Tolkien’s hallmark codas — a...
The Cardinal
In most western cultures, people imagine dragons to be evil, demon-like make-believe beasts,...
Grathugar
Hrósan stood in the ruin of the once impressive gate of Uvith. His polished armor reflected the...
Lewis’s Dragons and Materialism: A Reflection on Eustace Scrubb and Other Dragons
Dragons are known for many things, but their greed and disregard for human life make them iconic....
Hercules and the Hydra
Hercules, the mightiest hero of Greek mythology, is perhaps most famous for his twelve labors. As...
The Forbidden Fountain
The wyr lifted his nose in delight. Sun-kissed water sparkled over his powerful head, down his...
Nella Sua Voluntade
“In His Will [is our peace].”[1] Nella Sua Voluntade is the title of a chapter in C.S. Lewis’s The...
Violence of Fire
The night was dark and still: starless, moonless, windless. If not for the groans of the shifting...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: The Dragon of False Memory
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2016 novel The Buried Giant is a departure from his usual modern or dystopian...
The Dragon’s Demise: Experiencing Apocalypse
My childhood did not include encountering dragons much that I can recall. I knew there were...
St. George and the Dragon: Inspiration and Identity
We can learn much about both a person and a country by the heroes they revere. One such...
An Excerpt from Dragonslayer: Beginnings
CHAPTER ONE Hon awoke with a start. The sky outside his window was dark but the room was as bright...
