Elusive Elucidations

• Alice - a sprite who lives in Aprilla's boarding house
• Aprilla - a middle aged lady troll who owns the boarding house in which I am currently living
• Bo - one of the six imps who live in Aprilla's boarding house
• Crow Toes Quarterly - "a playfully dark arts and literature e-zine and limited-edition print magazine for children ages nine and up"
• Dr. Shtiva - a mad doctor who invented the X-Rae machine, often mistakenly called the X-Ray machine.
• Glorya - one of the six imps who live in Aprilla's boarding house
• Hamilton Hill - my hometown
• Jak - one of the six imps who live in Aprilla's boarding house
• Max - one of the six imps who live in Aprilla's boarding house
• Midnight Screaming - a literary magazine in which my poem "In the Dark You Lie Awake" appeared
• Sarkis - Aprilla's husband
• tengu - a Japanese creature with the face of a crow and the body of a man
• Zane - one of the six imps who live in Aprilla's boarding house