For this week, the prompt for flash fiction submitted as part of #FairyTaleFlash is “raven, owl, duck, swan, or any other bird.” I’ve always been intrigued by how the Welsh Arthurian hero Owain is accompanied by a host of ravens, and how in the Welsh stories, his mother is the Welsh mother goddess Modron (that gets changed to Morgan le Fey in the later Arthurian romances).

February 28, 2026

“After the Welsh goddess Modron’s newborn son Mabon was stolen from his crib, it was centuries before she had the courage to make another. We, the 300 Ravens of Kenverchyn, stand guard as Owain slumbers in his crib. We will always watch him, will never leave him.”
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