Chuck followed up a 22-year Air Force career by earning an MFA at CSU San Bernardino. In the midst of this return to the classroom, he wrangled with a C.S. Lewis scholar about inviolability of the plot of The Magician's Nephew, a debate that provided the impetus for "In the Library of Narnia." Chuck now seeks work doing what English professors do in Western Ohio. If you liked this piece, you'd enjoy his myth-imbued work on The Five-Two website, a platform for crime-based poetics, or his first-grader fantasy that Daily Science Fiction published. More of Chuck's work can be found at The Fifty-Two and Daily Science Fiction
In the novel about the halted, ruined city that represents evil solidified, the curious boy is meant to awaken the queen who represents the inversed Madonna. Instead, he picks plums from the one tree that still blossoms. The sweetness of the fruit suffuses his senses. Their syrup makes his lips and cheeks sticky. Instead of ringing the crystal bell that… Read more →