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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 ...

Song of the Fairy Warrior

Born in hate, 

Raised in love,

I became a warrior, 

Yearning to shed blood.


To fight with power, 

With spear in hand,

I knew my destiny 

Was to kill every man


Who dared to hurt me,

Or those who were helpless. 

That was my task

As a warrior, selfless. 


I was weak before,

Now I am not.

I know how to fight.

I will never be caught


Again by vile beings

Who wish me harm.

I will use my spear 

To kill and disarm.


I am small

But I am not weak.

I am tough

Though I am meek.


I am fast.

I am agile.

Enemies beware,

Fight me at your peril.

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