It is the year 1257. Philip Cameron writes of his exploits on a nautical journey to a remote island, and the group that is hunting him, in a mysterious journal left him by his uncle.

3 more poems from the archives.

Finding a Common Thread Among the Author's Life and Writing

What might theology have to do with art? In this episode, Tim Vander Meulen takes a survey through history of the artistic blights of popular culture and the great Christian men who stood in opposition.

Don Quixote, Faust, The Red and the Black, One Hundred Years of Solitude - Each of these presents characters who strive after worldly success, progress, or greatness in some way, and each come ultimately to failure. Why is that?

A small portion of a larger work of fantasy, this sample presents a portrait of one of its main characters as a young elfling growing up in the city of Dralindor.

A short story about a girl and her imaginary friend.

3 poems

Is the literary novel merely the sum of its individual parts? Tim Vander Meulen compares the novel to a movement in scientific analysis called reductionism.

A short story by Tim Vander Meulen, published on truthandfiction.org