To Build a Boat, Listen to Trees

by Eric Witchey

Award-winning writer Eric M. Witchey penned this novelette in which compassion, heart, and attention to the whispers of the natural world create love, thwart enemies, and save a kingdom.

Port Corwald, A peaceful maritime city state in the mists of the distant past, is threatened by warring nations on all sides. An old carpenter, a young mute, and a princess band together to save their home.

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2011

About the author

Eric Witchey's fiction has appeared nationally and internationally in magazines and anthologies. He has published in multiple genres under several names. His how-to articles have appeared in The Writer Magazine, Writer's Digest Magazine, Writer's Northwest Magazine, Northwest Ink, and in a number of on-line publications. His fiction has won recognition from The International Book Award, The Independent Publisher Book Award, Writers of The Future, New Century Writers, Writer's Digest, the Eric Hoffer Prose Award program, Short Story America, and www.ralan.com. When not teaching or writing, he restores antique HO locomotives or tosses bits of feather and pointy wire at laughing trout.

Reviews

[Alan Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

A charming novelette about respect for life and the worth of energy over aspiration.