WELL READ Magazine February 2024

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Long ago, Milon Redshield, the first warrior-king of Windkeep Castle, brought down a curse on the kingdom for his cruel treatment of dragons, the Goddess Nilene’s chosen guardians of nature. Thousands of years later, Windkeep is still burdened with the curse, and Queen Tessia is having to defend her kingdom from repeated assaults by the weather witches and their allies. She turns to her friends and advisors Norbert the Green Mage and Tyrmiss the Last Dragon, to accompany her and a band of heroes in a quest to travel to the far land of Sheonad in order to parley with the witches, and if they refuse to negotiate, then to destroy their city. Tessia urges Norbert to use his powers to fight the witches and protect Windkeep, but Norbert is reluctant to do so because he understands that the world exists in delicate balance, and grave and unforeseen consequences result if the balance is disrupted. After fighting a number of battles and suffering bizarre magical transformations, Tessia and Norbert at last come to understand the kingdom of Windkeep can be saved only through the ancient wisdom of dragons.

MADVILLE PUBLISHING seeks out and encourages literary writers with unique voices. We look for writers who express complex ideas in simple terms. We look for critical thinkers with a twang, a lilt, or a click in their voices. And patois! We love a good patois. We want to hear those regionalisms in our writers’ voices. We want to preserve the sound of our histories through our voices complete and honest, dialectal features and all. We want to highlight those features that make our cultures special in ways that do not focus on division, but rather shine an appreciative light on our diversity.

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Windkeep by Michael Simms

2min
page 21

The Intimacy of Spoons by Jim Minick

2min
pages 20-21

After Camus by Jay Neugeboren

1min
pages 20-21

Murder Under A Honey Moon: A 1930s Mona Moon Historical Cozy Mystery by Abigail Keam

1min
page 19

The Arsenic Eater's Wife: A brand new dark historical mystery that will keep you guessing by Tonya M

1min
page 18

Junebug Fischer by Mandy Haynes

5min
pages 95-96

CASKET OF LOVE by Michael Lee Johnson

2min
page 59

NOT ALL VISITORS ARE by John M. Williams

8min
page 54

JUST LIKE HOME: a tale of the unexpected by Patricia Feinberg Stoner

11min
pages 48-53

GREETING THE HUNGRY BEAR IN AUTUMN by Lorraine Cregar

2min
pages 46, 90

RETURN TO SENDER: AN ACCIDENTAL VALENTINE by Katie Crow

4min
page 84

BLUE by Malcolm Glass

7min
page 76

EYE CONTACT by Micah Ward

9min
page 68

TOURIST TRAPPED by Ellen Notbohm

11min
page 58

THE HOUSE ON A STEEP HILL by Ann Hite

6min
page 52

THE GURU DAKSHINA AND THE LEAVE-TAKING by Dr. Elizabeth V. Koshy

7min
page 44

OFF THE PAGE

8min
pages 178, 180, 185

AUTHORS INTERVIEWING AUTHORS - Scott Semegran and Kerri Schlottman

15min
pages 138, 152, 155

ANNIE ASKS Vanessa Lillie

3min
pages 132, 135-136

CLAIRE CONSIDERS

7min
pages 122, 128-129

THE WRITER’S EYE

2min
pages 38, 41

INSIDE VOICES

7min
pages 30-32, 36-37

The Calpocalypse: An Allegory in Verse

3min
pages 2-8, 11

Hey readers! WELL READ's BEST OF 2023 Coming soon!

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pages 4, 8
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