Why are you using such an odd tense in From The Forest, etc.? I think you used it in other narratives too. I find it strange to read neither here nor there. I can find no reference to it anywhere. Did you create this idea yourself?

The tense I used in writing From the Forest is known as the “present tense.” I certainly didn’t invent it. It’s always been part of the English language, but the majority of English/American fantasy and science fiction is written in the simple past tense. I chose the present tense as a way of keeping the action and thought close to the present and the character.