As he explains in the opening note: “To write in the first-person about a sixth-century Celtic bard, even a fantasized one, is something I just couldn’t keep up. With the sequel, “The Atheling’s Wife” ( Fantastic, August 1976), the author switched from first person to third. The story was well liked and readers wondered who is this man with a name from a Monty Python sketch? The king and his men pursue, and it is only the chance encounter with a two-headed bear that Felimid is able to exact their escape. Felimid is saved by one of the Saxon’s slaves, Regan, who flees with the singer into the forest. Oisc hangs the bard over a pit filled with starving wolves. There Felimid receives rough treatment, especially when he runs afoul of a shapeshifter named Tosti. The tale opens in King Oisc’s dun, a small kingdom of Saxons. The story was called “Fugitives in Winter” and was a first-person account of a young Celtic bard named Felimid mac Fal.
In October 1975 an unknown writer named Dennis More appeared in Ted White’s Fantastic, his first tale garnering the cover by Marcus Boaz.
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