Arms Charlie Craigan and loving lament for a

and loving lament for a way of life and a place that is gone

authors Roger V

diffuse light penetrates the blind

Paul has a remarkable ability to present the natural world infused with wonder and mystery

particularly in the ghazal-like title sequence

Arms Charlie Craigan and loving lament for aDescription We are mesmerized, enthralled. A young, armless girl, tangled in the brutal arrowhead wire of glistening ivy, stares with dead eyes. If I had arms, I would embrace my shaking body. I would lift my hands to my face, cover my eyes, hold the aching scream in my mouth. Combining Wiccan ritual magic, Gnosticism, alchemy and of course Madeline Sonik's dazzling writing and storytelling, this magic realist novella relates the story of a young