History That Never Was

Home of Dawn Vogel: Writer, Historian, Geek

Weathering Youth: “Charming, Not Useful” and “Flora, Alone”

| July 22, 2025

Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “Charming, Not Useful” and […]

Weathering Youth: “Family Tree” and “A Trail of Apples”

| June 26, 2025

Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “Family Tree” and […]

Review of The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones

| July 13, 2022

Heather Rose Jones’ book, The Language of Roses (Queen of Swords Press, 2022), is a retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast with a series of interesting twists on the original fairy tale. This version of the story goes into some detail about how the Beast character wound up in his state, and […]