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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: The Onion Pixie

The Onion Pixie

I came across a strange pixie who was selling blue onions by Caramel Street. She told me that the onions were 25 cents each and that they were magical onions. I asked her what the onions could do, and she said they could turn people into dogs. When I asked her why on earth pixies would grow onions that turned people into dogs, she looked at me like I was crazy and asked why I wouldn’t want to be a dog. I replied that I preferred to be human and she said “Fine. Would you like these magenta onions that can turn people into cats?”

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