Twisted Tales to Delight and Amaze

Fern’s Familiars

Fern the Marsh Wizard made a mistake long ago. This happened when she was still a student under the tutelage of Thosis at the Academy.

It was an honest mistake. She meekly told Thosis about it. He assured her that the world would not end. If she were lucky, it would blow over in a few months. 

It didn’t. It got worse. How could she have thought of creating two? 

Absinthe wants nothing more than to eat everything in sight. 

At the same time, Licht obsesses about cleanliness, which naturally annoys Absinthe since he has nothing to eat. 

The familiar’s daily attempts to kill each other are trying, to say the least. 

Thosis, Fern’s mentor, told her something insightful. “Sometimes being a parent is like cracking a walnut with a 1-ton hammer.” He said that everything goes to pieces quickly.

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Christopher Johnson

Christopher is a retired professor of science and medical education and a children’s author living in Taiwan. He has over 30 years of experience working in higher education internationally. Originally from Huron, Ohio, in the United States, he spent his childhood playing in Lake Erie and Sawmill Creek.

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