Her web handle is amilolomy and in her five-star review at my web store of Beowulf: The Only One, she writes, “I always find myself crying by the end of it.”
As a storyteller, that’s music to my ears. That means that I’ve found the emotional lightning in the tale. It means that the character I’ve built—Beowulf—with his voice and his lines, his pauses, his worried inner thoughts, is worth crying over when he dies. “Fate often saves an undoomed man if his courage holds” he says when he’s in danger. That line comes straight from the thousand year old text. Other lines come from me, since I’m not reciting the story. No, this is my re-imagined version of a tale about a singular hero. Fictionalized and brought to life for modern listeners with character voices and a full score on 12-string guitar.
Join me on Sunday, Feb. 7 at 5 pm EST on Zoom for a live performance of BEOWULF: THE ONLY ONE. Sponsored by Grendel’s Den. Tickets are $25.
Who knows, maybe you’ll cry at the end, too.