The Unknown Dark & the Naming of the First King
Winifred eased herself down onto a pillowed bench. More like collapsed, she thought, biting back a gasp. She was heavily pregnant, and exhausted from being on her feet all day, wearing the heavy brocade, silk cloaks, and stiff silver crown. She had a half hour to...
Dominic de Souza
SmartCatholics founder | Marketer & storyteller. Geeks over epics, mystics, science, the angelic, & movies.
Latest posts, reviews, stories and working theories:
A silent plague morning – random writing exercise
This morning, I was struck by an experience of silence after the Great Plague, and perhaps the inner feelings of a survivor. There's some echoes of our world in Covid, but a few nods to how a medieval mind might have thought. Could be an interesting character study....
Midsommar (2019): May Queens, oracles, bears, & fear of abandonment
Midsommar (2019, R) is a dark fairy tale (horror) film, my mind felt like a riot of themes and thoughts. But three figures refused to let me go, the May Queen, the Oracle, and the Bear. The movie is filled with overriding themes of trauma-bonding, cult over community,...
‘How to Be a Catholic Author’ interview on the Catholic Homeschool Podcast
Hi friends, I'm so pleased to join Paola Ciskanik, founder of Catholic Homeschool Online, on her podcast to talk about this whole CatholicAuthor adventure. Check out her original post here. Do you or one of your teens feel a passion for writing but don’t know where to...
Why maps are the beginning, not the end of discovery
2 books called to me like grimoires throughout my childhood. An illustrated Bible, and the Usborne Book of Facts for Kids. Both were thick tomes dense with details and stories. My favorite part was the maps. A great big poster of the continents hung over a dresser in...
Why we need the great rituals of Halloween
With my little girl 8 years old this year, I've wanted to sit and think through my objections to Halloween, as a cultural thing, as a psychological thing. Halloween as we see it today is a more recent thing, within the last century. I think it is largely obsessed over...
Let’s stop it with the ‘Catholic Version’ of things
“We need a Catholic version of genre fiction,” she was telling me. “It’s important that our teens have Catholic versions of things to grow up with.”
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