The Vicar's Men

The Vicar's Men is the title to a collection of loosely related fiction

and illustrations by Chris Goodwin.

Illustration

These have not been compiled just yet, sorry.

Fiction

Fairy Tales

These are complete stories in the vein of traditional fairy tales.

• The Maiden and The Wolf
• The Mark of True Love
• The Three Foolish Wishes
• The Ugly Man

Sketches

These aren't intended to be more than poems or portions of prose.

• She of The Sea
• Galactus and The Little Prince
• Death
• The Vicar's Champion
• Heather Hill
• Bob, Weave, Stick, Move
• Circle of Life
• These are from the same set:
  • IT'S A FACT...
  • NOBODY HEART'S
  • Have No Fear
  • Game_Over
• Fiction by Numbers, by The Sea
• Price of Admission
• Tomorrow People
• The Top
• Grass
• Music
• Gravity
• Angel
• Alice
• On The Whale

Fables

Complete fables that are intended to illustrate a certain moral or point of view.

• The Ant and The Grasshopper
• Three Blind Mice
• The Boy Who Cried Wolf
• Hair

Fragments

These are written as though excerpted from a larger work.

• The Saltshell
• The Girl and The Tower
• The Stagecoach Fragment - Part 1
• The Stagecoach Fragment - Part 2
• These are from the same larger work:
  • A Brief Tale of Plenty
  • In The Hall of The Rat King
  • Rooftop Encounter
  • The Radiation Fragment
  • Old Twig
• These are from the same set:
  • Macon County, Route 13
  • Opelika, Lee County
  • Notasulga, Alabama

Myths

These are written in the form of traditional myths. As such they aren't as self-contained

as the other fiction and attempt to describe the world beyond the writing. Taken together,

these form a common basis for the other work.

• The Warrior

• The Ladysmith

• The Hanging Bull God

• The Stringeater

• The Cat and The Moon

• The Vicar's Adjudicator

• The Feast of Succession

• The Drought

• Death's Herald

Short Stories

Other complete works that don't fit into the above categories.

• Coffee

• Goldilocks

• Here Is My Tooth

• Twombly and Lota

• In The Shadow of The Dragon

• Memorial

• An Aging Cartographer

• The Echo

• The Listener

• The Thrawl (Parts 1 & 2)

• King Cotton

• I Saw The Army, White and Red

• The Dog

• Tauromachy

• Loa

• Christmas

Miscellany

• The Quiet

• Funary Fiction - meme quiz, offsite