Short Story: Mermaid So this is what drowning feels like. The delicate membranes of my gills strain to pull in water, but all they meet is air—hot and dry in the summer sun. My vision is always poor above water, but it’s blurring worse than usual right now....
Eivend's Song by Grace MacPherson https://authorgracemacpherson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Eivends-Song.mp3 I wrote this song for a character in The Lily and the Lyre, the sequel to The Star and the Sword. It appears in that manuscript (although that’s...
Illuvian Children's Prayer by Grace MacPherson https://authorgracemacpherson.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Childrens-Song.mp3 This song is the traditional children’s bedtime prayer in my fictional country Illuvia, which is the setting for my...
Do you know what existentialism is? A year ago, neither did I—and to be honest, I’m still a little fuzzy on the details. But as far as I can tell from my community college philosophy class, it’s a philosophical movement that questions the reality of everything around...
