The Blog of L.R. Patton
How Dragons Communicate: an Examination
Dragons are mysterious creatures, and one of the most mysterious things about them is how they communicate. Below is a brief look, a detangling of the mystery (though not all of it; it is impossible to detangle all of the mysteries surrounding dragons—communication...
Love: a Poem Inspired by Fairendale
Love is stoking a fire without being asked Love is sitting at a bedside, remaining present through sickness Love is searching every corner of a kingdom for the one who is missing Love is reading all night to find a solution Love is surrendering a life to the pursuit...
8 Truths About the Grim Reaper You Likely Don’t Want to Know
The Grim Reaper is a scary figure, whether you live in the land of Fairendale or you are in your own magical world. And there are many, many things about him that you might not want to know—and yet still want to know, because this is the way curiosity works). Here are...
The First Chapter of The Girl who Built the Tower
Below is the first chapter of The Girl Who Built the Tower, which released today. Enjoy. Fairies. A whole line of them, inside a shelter in the woods near Lincastle, where August and the other lost boys of Fairendale stand, open-mouthed, vacillating between two...
The Heart vs. the Head: a Poem Inspired by Fairendale
The difference between the heart and the head is that when the head gets involved, the heart gets all muddled up. It starts speaking logically, counting the costs, shaping itself to the past and the conventions of the day. The heart, when listened to in a deep and...
Dragon: a Poem
He shimmers, a green that turns blue in the right kind of light His scales hiss as he twists turns, lifts from the ground The wind from his wings blows a hot fire across a face He slides into the sky all majesty, grace, magnificence He is a dragon
What to Eat in the Woods: A Survival Guide
Many of the children in the Fairendale stories are stuck in forests alone and have to fend for themselves. They are tasked with finding food, shelter, and clothing—which is no small feat, considering how young and sometimes ill-equipped at survival they are. One of...
How Dragon Communities Work in the World of Fairendale
Dragon communities are important in the land of Fairnedale, though most of them exist outside the knowledge and notice of people, either because dragons are slightly afraid of people (like the dragons who have been hunted for their skins) or because they have no...
How to Extract Yourself From a Fairy Ring
By the Enchantress Sorceress of Fairendale A fairy ring is, at its simplest, a gathering of fairies. Sometimes they are having a party, sometimes they are conducting a marketplace where they share their homemade goods (and they are very proud of these tiny homemade...
How Kingdoms Thrive: an Examination of Trade
The realm of Fairendale is a very self-contained one. What this means is that there are no outsiders who visit the land’s harbors. In fact, not many people know of the existence of Fairendale, because it is specially hidden by a very old enchantment. The original...