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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

Micro Story: Stranded


“This is all your fault!” Daisy fumed.

“My fault? You’re the one who wanted to come up here so badly,” Jack said.
“But you’re the one who lied about knowing how to fly a plane!”
“I do know how to fly a plane; I just wasn’t quite sure how to land.”
“And now the plane is totaled and we’re stuck up here on this floating island for who knows how long!”
Jack walked near the edge of the island and looked down at the other floating chunk of land that had their house on it.
“Dad will notice we’re gone soon, then he’ll get his other plane and find us.”
Daisy sighed. “And then he’ll kill us. Thanks, that makes me feel a lot better.”


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