Kizzia Mildmay

Word Herder and Yarn Wrangler

A young magpie, with white chest feathers fluffy after a bath, sits in a hawthorn tree in spring.

Flashes of Feathers: More Tales from the Wildwood

January 27, 2023

When I ended the last of the Twelve Tales of Flashmas with “The End for now …” I didn’t have any continuation planned. It was simply that I’d loved writing them, wanted to keep working in this particular version of my Wildwood, and those two little words after The End seemed like a good way … More Flashes of Feathers: More Tales from the Wildwood

Photo of a path through the woods covered in leaves, passing through what looks to be a threshold marked by tree trunks. The russets, greens and yellows of the photo and the colour of the light gives the sense that this is no ordinary wood.

Twelve Tales from the Wildwood

December 19, 2022

Originally written at the start of December from the prompts sent daily by Writer’s HQ for their 12 Days of Flashmas challenge, I decided I wanted share these on my blog over the actual twelve days of Christmas (so from Boxing Day to Epiphany) pretty much as they left my keyboard at the end of … More Twelve Tales from the Wildwood