The Stolen Child – Cover
A new chapter has begun! Welcome to Chapter 4: The Stolen Child.
The chapter takes its title from an old poem of the same name by WB Yeats on the habit of faeries carrying off children to the Otherworld, sometimes leaving behind a changeling like Fetch has done in our story. Its most famous refrain is creepy and sad:
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand
The Waterboys recorded a lovely adaptation on one of my favorite albums from the 80s, Fisherman’s Blues.
I apologize for the two week gap between this update and the last. I took a week off just to get my bearings as the Fall term began at the college where my day job resides. Then some schmuck rear ended my car, rendering it a total loss. I am fine, and I was able to drive the car to the mechanic. But the damage was too extensive and too expensive to repair. So that sucked up another week. Maybe in normal times it would not have, but these are Covid Times where everything becomes overwhelming instantly. I am back on track with my drawing schedule, so I don’t anticipate any more disruptions. But then again — who does?
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