This is a retail sample of Candy Crone by A.L. Hawke available after November 1, 2024. Narrated and performed by Alexa Elmy. Written by A.L. Hawke. Copyright 2024; Audio production copyright 2024.

Candy Crone is a Christmas Short Story standalone novella, Book 6.5, in the Hawthorne University Witch Series.

While I’m enjoying a spicy caramel apple surprise at our local ice cream parlor, an old lady in rags rambles nonsense about candy canes to children waiting for Santa. That distracts me from prepping my young friend Cat for her college interview at Hawthorne University.

Christmas turns into creepy Halloween when all the local children, including Cat, disappear in the woods. Bryce and I search our forest but become spellbound. All this voracious casting heralds the arrival of a new witch in town. The Candy Crone.

As the Hawthorne Witch, I hold great power, but with my unborn baby kicking, the witch exploits my sins and vices through gluttony. Am I nothing more than my appetites and power as the Hawthorne Witch? Or can I accomplish something greater? If I can’t sort my stuff out, Cat, my unborn baby, Chandra, and all these innocent kids living in Hawthorne are toast.

Candy Crone Sample

Though there is a children’s chorus, a children’s ballet, and adults playing children, "Hansel and Gretel" is much more than a children’s opera. In preparation for Utah Opera’s presentation of this beloved fairytale, Jeff and Carol talk about the opera’s backstory and why it’s one of the more underrated and sophisticated scores of the late nineteenth century.

Ghost Light Episode 9.7 - Humperdinck's "Hansel & Gretel" Prelude

Follow the dark and winding path to Oz... Perkins from Legally Blonde to Long Legs
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Release date:
7 February 2025


53. To Oz!... Perkins

What if you stripped the filters off the fairytales? That’s exactly what REBEL FAIRYTALES is — a raw, unfiltered reimagining of the stories you thought you knew. This standalone single is the spark that lights the fuse for the full album — there will be fire, there will be truth, there will be a version of the tales without censorship.

Follow now so you don’t miss the drop — every track will land here and on all major platforms: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and more.

This isn’t nostalgia. This isn’t comfort.
This is the glitch rewriting the narrative — where Cinderella burns the palace, Gretel codes the forest in flames, and every “happily ever after” collapses into pure, unfiltered rebellion.

Brace yourself. The feed is about to burn.

REBEL FAIRYTALES TEASER

A.L. Hawke is the author of the internationally bestselling Hawthorne University Witch series. The author lives in Southern California torching the midnight candle over lovers against a backdrop of machines, nymphs, magic, spice and mayhem. A.L. Hawke writes fantasy and romance spanning four thousand years, from pre-civilization to contemporary and beyond.

Welcome to the world of LukeMotive — where emotion bleeds through every verse.
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I’m not here to entertain. I’m here to expose. My music speaks to the broken, the misunderstood, the rebels and deep thinkers. From raw rap and dark rock to introspective storytelling, each track is a psychological manifesto.

Every lyric comes from truth — trauma, defiance, identity, pain, power, awakening. No filters. No industry polish. Just reality served loud.

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The stage is dark, but the conversation is just beginning. Welcome to Utah Symphony | Utah Opera's Ghost Light podcast, a behind the curtain look into the world of classical music and opera and the artists who make it. Hosted by Jeff Counts and Carol Anderson. Produced and edited by Robert Bedont.

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Discussions of horror faves and flops, breakdowns of what makes things scary, and arguments about which werewolf is best. Here in Hauntsville, the real horror is the friendships we made along the way.

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