Thank you...

Special thank you to everyone who contributed to this anthology. It has been a busy few weeks juggling this project with our own lives. Exams and extracurriculars especially busied the typesetter.

We hope everyone has an amazing 2021 with lots of love and happiness. We hope that, despite the past year's predicaments and struggles, we can make a change for a positive future.

Some deserved praise...

With that, we'd like to specifically shine the spotlight on Linzz, who was the sole artist of all art entries included within this anthology. Her art is brilliant and she definitely deserves some praise for her hard work. You may check out more of her beautiful artwork from @linzzchrono on Instagram!

As seen amongst the selections of writings from the anthology, the themes surround loss of family, fear, and love.

Dandelion Miracles, surrounding the reincarnation of the Goddess of Peace and the God of Disaster, tells of the two former sibling gods reincarnating in a hospital setting. The story definitely managed to strike some sad strings with its concept. We can tell it was well thought-out, performing exceptionally well in conveying the feelings of anguish, regret, and loss.

Then, we have Never Fade, which includes the heart-wrenching exchanges of a half-Elven daughter by her human mother's deathbed. The work manages to cover the feelings of uncertainty after losing a parent, moving forward independently, and accepting the short cycle of life that humanity bestows. The ending was warm and left our editors with bittersweet emotions.

As for Wendigo, the author did a great job in expressing the fright of the narrator and creating an ominous atmosphere with her flowery prose. It was a short, yet mysterious, poem worth reading. The meaning of the poem is very flexible, with multiple interpretations by our editors. Did a Wendigo truly attack her, or did something else? Was it all a delusion? Who will know?

Last, but not least, Wren's Wintertide, a story that took the themes of winter and wound them around the forbidden love of a human girl and the winter prince. The author has done an excellent job manifesting the yearn for change and the maintenance of originality between the two seasonal royals shown in the story, Prince Wren and Princess Nasima.