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Fairy Tale Flash Fiction: King Arthur’s Mood

11 Friday Jul 2025

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For this week, the prompt for flash fiction submitted to #FairyTaleFlash is “travel or a grand adventure.” As I am currently writing a novel in which King Arthur and many of his warriors go off on a grand adventure, I thought it would be interesting to have Arthur fantasize about it here.

July 11, 2025

“King Arthur tried to focus on what his advisors were telling him – something related to taxes or the price of grain. All the high king could think of was how much he wished he could just throw his crown away, pull on his armor, and ride off on adventures with his brother.”
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Title page illustration by N. C. Wyeth for “The Boy’s King Arthur” (1922).

Fairy Tale Flash Fiction: Menw

25 Thursday Jan 2024

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For this week, the prompt for flash fiction submitted to #FairyTaleFlash is my favourite subject in all of folklore and literature: “Arthurian Legends: King Arthur, Excalibur, Guinevere, Merlin, Morgan LeFay, Knights of the Round Table, and more.” I decided to give a short character study on one of my favourite of King Arthur’s champions: Menw the Wise, one of King Arthur’s three warrior-wizards in Welsh folklore.

January 18, 2024

I am Menw, one of King Arthur’s three wizard-warriors. Merlin taught me my Art, and commanded me to obey and protect the king. But which of those commands takes priority? Should I disobey the king when his order would endanger him? When do I follow my own will?
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image by Aubrey Beardsley