We can’t be something we are not,
but we can be who we would be.

Isabella looked around as she walked out of the surf and onto the wet sand. Little girls don’t weigh much, but they still should leave footprints. She took in the world with wonder and grinned.
“You did it!”
The squawking seagulls chastised a crow that was flying in their midst. The iridescent corvid landed on Isabella’s shoulder. She turned to it, smiled, and said, “Took you long enough.”
The bird cackled back.

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On a beach in a pre-industrial British village, two small children appear that everyone sees, but no one remembers. Lost traditions play themselves out on the stage of the seasons, as the villagers live their stories of love, loss, healing, humor, and adventure. An old woman brews and bottles hope, peace, and truth. A miller’s daughter finds unwanted drama in suspicious newcomers. A young boy becomes embroiled in a quest of elderly mystery lovers. A roof thatcher is haunted by a straw fox and a tragic puzzle. A Fey child bridges two worlds with ancient magic. A widower who lives in a tree writes it all down. The villagers of Withe and Stone tell their tales, without realizing just how different their world is from ours, where the traditional faiths of pagan Europe stayed dominant, evolving into a peaceful agrarian society, and where two small children whom everyone sees, and no one remembers, read the spell of the world and use their magic to keep this universe from slipping away.

John Goldsberry presents a world co-created with his late wife Jan, that tells stories without villains, epic struggles, torrid romance, or violence. Rather, these are the experiences of everyday people, facing what life deals to us all, and what could be if we woke to see the magic that we really are.