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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 ...

Drabble: Stick's New World

Stick gazed at what was happening. He had appeared atop a green hill. All around him, flowers spontaneously appeared out of thin air. A sun swirled into being in the blue sky and started radiating sunbeams. Clouds began hovering above him. Two black squiggly birds flew over him. Wonderful.

Suddenly, the sun vanished! White space was in its stead. The whiteness devoured the clouds, sky, birds, hills and flowers, and it was about to devour him! He wanted to get away! But the white devourer was upon him!

Miriam erased the stick figure. That drawing was terrible! She’d start over.

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