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10 - MATTERS OF THE HEART One afternoon a week later, David saw Dewdrop working on a vest with her needle and thread. “Mending garments?” “No,” the doe answered. “I’m practicing embroidery. See, I’m sewing a heart. I have to use blind stitches, so it doesn’t go all the way through.” “Uh...

9 - COUNTING UP Time passed, and so did David’s awkwardness. He proved a quick study at the anvil, and he helped Mr. Badger with his work, even meeting his new visitor, Cody. He was busy arranging the sports team, yet he never slacked at his chores. He was determined to pack an entire lifetime...

8 - THE REALIZATION David wondered where he should take his new bike first. His parents had fooled him to the last minute thinking he would be getting clothes for his birthday, and he still had to remind himself it was really his new ride. This didn’t have a coaster brake, it had real...

7 - BEYOND HIS YEARS The next day, David chatted so much at the breakfast table that the other younglings hardly got a word in. “Just think, we’re going to have a race. Maybe we’ll have a prize for first place.” “Somebody’s made a new friend,” Maureen said. “I’m glad you’re making friends...

6 - JOEY The world outside was a kaleidoscope of sights and smells. David wanted to experience them all from his new perspective. He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. “Someone’s baking bread. It rained last night. I wonder what those flowers are?” With his eyes still tightly shut, he...

5 - COURAGE Maureen had a certain magic about her that left everything she did, everyone she met, and everywhere she went a little better. David had fallen headlong under her potent spell. In a world with so many new things, so much uncertainty, she was familiar, a touchstone, someone he could...

3 - BROTHER MINE One thing David never had was a brother. Now he had Tipper who bore a strong resemblance to him—besides the fact they were both rabbits—and he was about the same height. He was fascinated by his new brother and watched everything he did. This did not go unnoticed. “Why are you...

2 - FORGING AHEAD It was chilly autumn in Terra Haute, but Farthingdale basked in the richness of eternal spring. As David ambled down the avenue that passed for Main Street, he met some of the villagers Maureen told him about. There were beavers and otters and even a stately family of deer who...

I have posted "THE VISITOR" here in The Professor's Writing Club. I would love to share this with you, for writing it was very meaningful for me.

1 - THE AWAKENING The simple cottage was silent and still as Maureen the rabbit and her two younglings held vigil by an empty bed. “Children, get ready,” Maureen said with barely suppressed excitement. “The miracle should happen any moment now.” The young rabbits believed in miracles the way...

When Chuck Norris was born, he drove his mother home from the hospital. When Chuck Norris went off to college, he told his father, "Well Pop, now you'll have to be the man of the family."

I see my first post in this thread was 20 years ago. My, my! In those 20 years I've published several works and been an editor at Worthy Trailman Press. I've also seen my friend Roger (Prince of the West) Thomas produce several fine works with Ignatius Press. I'm not big on "Please read my...

I'll give you a hint. Good fantasy stories...all of the greatest ones...have a doorway. With Lewis Carrol, Wonderland was down a rabbit hole, then through a mirror. C.S. Lewis drew us into Narnia through a Wardrobe, then pulled us into the sea through a living painting. In a way, it's like...

This is very important for my fans to know. There are people--most people--who start writing a story without being sure how it will end. They write it a chapter at a time and see where it goes. I am not most people. I have a project in which I have full confidence, and it's being worked on at...

Welcome aboard!

Meow (with a heavy badgerly accent)

Once I wrote a short story for TDL about a little girl who was hit by a random bullet during an urban gun battle. And while she was in a coma, having a nightmare from which she couldn't wake, Aslan appeared to her and told her there is a place she could seek refuge until her body healed enough...

Am posting a few things on the restoration of Byron on Wells in the writers area.

THANKS!!! (and no need to shout! ;-) )

It is daunting after a long hiatus to pick up the threads where I left off, but I'll start here with a few words about Byron on Wells. If I wanted a fantasy about humans for humans and stated in the framework of human society, I wouldn't have begun with the Chronicles of Narnia. I would have...