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| Imagine you and your husband's six other wives raising a son together. |
Salutations, dear reader, and happy Women's History Month! This week's fairy tale comes to us from India. The Son of Seven Queens is a story about a boy and the tremendous influence the women around him had on his life. Click the link above to read the story, and continue below to analyze it with me.
This week, I wrote a modern version of Queen of the Crows. I'm stepping out of what I normally write, so feel free to let me know if I didn't characterize something or someone quite right.
As a note, in the US, there is ASL (American Sign Language), but there is also BASL (Black American Sign Language). It's likely that Kisha would have started out learning ASL and picked up BASL from Tyrese.
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| Maybe a deaf person can be a singer's favorite person. |
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| He could be a king. |
Hello again, readers. This week, we'll be looking at Queen of the Crows, a story from the Caribbean. It shows the importance of forging relationships over time. And having a strong scalp. Read the story at the link above and read below to analyze it with me.
Hello, reader. This week, I wrote a modern fairy tale based on Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen. I hadn't expected to start writing about the Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, but that's what happened. I guess I'm too old to identify with the children protagonists anymore. Enjoy!
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| Sometimes the kindest people live in the most desolate places. |
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| Winter is beautiful, but so cold. |
Salutations, readers. This week, we'll finish up the story of The Snow Queen with parts 5, 6, and 7. This is the longest story we've looked at together, so I applaud you for making it all the way through. If you haven't read the previous parts, or if you don't remember them, the entire story is at the link above. Give it a read and come back to analyze it with me.
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| Even beautiful flowers can be part of a prison. |
Hello again friends. I'm changing up my usual rhythm for this story. We'll be looking at Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen every week until it's done. Then I'll write a modern version of it. Otherwise, I'd be writing stories that didn't finish. So, if you read stories 1 and 2 last week, go ahead and scroll down to stories 3 and 4 and give them a read.
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| Beautiful, but cold as ice |
Hello friends! For those of us in the Northern hemisphere, we're deep into winter, so this story is pretty apt. For those in the Southern hemisphere, I suppose you can remember winter as you're deep into summer.
I've wanted to talk about Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen for quite awhile. The only reason I haven't is because it's so long. It's not a novel, but it's much longer than the short stories I usually choose for this blog. However, I was looking at fairy tales online the other day, as you do, when I found that some places have this story split into seven different stories, which are much more manageable. So, I hope you like Hans Christian Andersen's writing, because we'll be looking at The Snow Queen for the next several weeks. Today, we'll look at the first and second stories because the first one is so short. In future weeks, it will probably just be one story at a time. So, go ahead and read stories one and two at the link above, then join me below to analyze them.
