Tales from Fiddler’s Green #1

About Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish

Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine was born of a languid afternoon of conversation on a sunny tavern lawn. Taking its name from the pleasant afterlife dreamed into being by sailors, cavalrymen, and other adventurous spirits, Fiddler’s Green gathers friends, good cheer, and a bit of magic to create a better world not someday, but now.

In ecclesiastical terms, the word “peculiar” refers to a district outside the jurisdiction of the Church. It’s also a good word for describing my own view of reality, and likely yours as well. And so here is a “peculiar parish magazine” for anyone who doesn’t feel the need to have their inner life directed by others. If it is peculiar that we wish to govern our bodies and souls ourselves, then let us be peculiar.

The conversation continues, and there is room for you in it. Each of us is on our own journey, both in this world and whatever lies beyond it. Sometimes the path is well lit; at other times it is obscured. Your wanderings have brought you here, and I hope you’ll stray for a while with me and the other souls gathered at Fiddler’s Green.

Clint Marsh [Publisher]

Description

Fiddler’s Green first collection of prose and verse, with an introduction by series editor Susan Redington Bobby and a foreword from Clint Marsh.

Tales from Fiddler’s Green #1 features red foil titling, illustrations throughout by Open Sea Design Co., and 72 pages of short fiction and poetry, including the following:

• For Christiana: Write While You May, by M. Kelly Peach

• Sofia Rising, by Ronnie Angel Pope

• The Whisker Reliquary, by Sheryl Humphrey

• Akaz Maxo’s Familiars, by Andrew M. Reichart

• Memoirs of a One-Time Dragon Slayer’s Apprentice, by George Nikolopoulos

• The Gate and the Key, by Miranda Rey

• The Forest Bride, by Lorraine Schein

• If a Tree Falls, by Dan Micklethwaite

• The Bone-Handled Walking Stick, by Cassandra Solon Parry

• Changeling, by Connie Todd Lila

• Siren Song, by Christina Rosso

• Beware the Aes Sidhe, by Freddie Silva, Jr.

• Two Stones: A Tale from the Medieval Bestiary, by Evan Davies

• Shuis Slo Slumus Sheen, by Edwin Sams

• Selchie, by Allyson Shaw

• Down by the Sea, by Natalia Forty

• For Ariana: Dance While You May, by M. Kelly Peach