Crystal Carroll

• Jul-2021
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There once were twelve princesses, who so frightened their father by wearing out the soles of their slippers each night in their locked room that he offered princes a kingdom for the secret and death for any prince, who failed to learn the truth.Quit...

• Jul-2019
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For as long as humans have looked up at the sky, the moon and stars, we've ascribed human characteristics to them. Told stories about them. Whether its the ever changing moon, meandering Venus, stately king Jupiter, and so on. We do the same thing wh...

• Jan-2018
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In the woods, a group of friends gathers beneath the tall redwoods. There's a fire going against the chill.A child runs up to ask for a story with a story ticket in hand. Soon, all the children are turning in their tickets.Each child gets to decide w...

• Nov-2017
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There's a story, you may have heard it, about a fruit that if someone ate it would grant the knowledge of good or evil. The divine planted the fruit bearing tree in the garden and told us not to eat it. Here's another one, there's a box (or a jar) th...

• Dec-2015
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The Bard of Avon. England's National Poet. William Shakespeare. He occupies a very central position in English Literature. Well, he has a canon, and students are forced to read him. Ben Jonson referred to Shakespeare as, "Soul of the age, the applaus...

• Oct-2013
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The City is a place where all mythologies and folklore mingle and mix. It is the mother of Cities. The rainbow serpent bridge may turn into a serpent again during rush hour commute (and isn't *that* annoying). While the red brick road spirals out thr...

• Sep-2012
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In the City, gods from all mythologies mashup with the every day. Monster infested fog sometimes sweeps through the lunch hour. Occasionally traffic backs up because the Blood river overflows. Bicyclists can shortcut through the Sumerian underworl...

• Jan-2012
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In an alternative European renaissance, where princes keep vampires as servants, the British Isle has been split into two kingdoms. In the South, Queen Mary rules an England in turmoil. Fearful for her unborn child, she increasingly obeys the whisper...

Five years before, Aeschylus dragged his battered body home after a lifetime of service in Aegina's navy. He'd hoped for a place to curl up and forget. Instead, he'd found himself the city guard's captain and in the middle of a political firefight wi...