Glormadarck

A strange calf with a strange power is born to an ordinary cow, and is cared for by a keeper who envisions an ordinary use for that power.

Music: “Mystical Town” by Chris Logsdon

Video description

Video Description: “Glormadarck” Trailer. Duration, 39 seconds. “Mystical Town” by Chris Logsdon. Digital drawing. A bull facing forward and seen from an angle on the left side. The bull has a black pelt, red eyes, glowing blue horns, and a slightly parted mouth. Shaggy hair falls down the bull’s ears and forehead. The bull stands on fog-covered grassy ground. Behind is the surface of a body of water. Above is a night sky glowing with moonlight from upper right. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Fairy Tale,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “A strange calf with a strange power is born to an ordinary cow, and is cared for by a keeper who envisions an ordinary use for that power.” Title card and tagline fade. Lines from the story appear in sequence in different positions and different colors: “‘Perhaps you were made for some other purpose.’ The calf cried out then, for he had not understood what his keeper had meant for him to do.  But in that moment, his confusion cleared. He summoned a stream, and it was the beginning of the humble yet enchanted service of the great Glormadarck.” Animation: Fog at bottom starts upon first line and fades at end. Site URL appears at bottom center throughout and fades at end. As the last line disappears, the story title appears at center, and a text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”



Welcome to Year 10 of Storyfeather

Every year’s short stories (mostly) follow a theme. For Year Ten, every month’s stories share a genre or theme, some anchor point that the reader can rely on. But within that, there are strange concoctions brewing. The genre’s merge, archetypes collide, mythologies mash…welcome to the Year of Fusion.

January Base Element:
🦀🐌 BEAST-UARY! 🐲🐙

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FUSION RECIPE:

Base element for January: Beasts! Beasts of myth, legend, nightmare, and dream. Fusion
Element: Cleaning Service.

This story is inspired by a prompt for the Creatuanary art challenge: Water bull.  This creature is from Scottish Gaelic myth and folklore, the “tarbh uisge.”  It hangs out in lochs at night, is friendly (especially when compared to water horses), and is amphibious and can shape-shift.  So…
(Sources: Mysterious Britain and Ireland and The Birds of Rhiannon)

What if a special little calf was born to a farmer one day, and the calf looked so strange that the farmer wanted to sell it, but his wife entreated him to keep it.  She wanted her own trade and thought that maybe this calf had come to her to teach her what that trade might be. The farmer agreed.  And soon, the calf manifested an interesting ability that gave his keeper an idea for a new business.


Genre: Fairy Tale
Tags: Bull, Calf, Cleaning, Crow, Glormadarck, Keeper, Lake, Moors, River, Stream


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