A Week Away
John is taking the week off. But don’t worry you can still get your weekly fix of Folklore goodness.
We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.
John is taking the week off. But don’t worry you can still get your weekly fix of Folklore goodness.
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