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The practice of retelling fairy tales in the form of literary fiction is, if not quite hallowed, certainly established. The great Angela Carter’s revelatory 1979 story collection, “The Bloody Chamber” — a brocaded work of heady sensuality, intelligence and violence — remains the benchmark, but Kate Bernheimer’s Fairy Tale Review and the several excellent Bernheimer-edited anthologies spun off from it carry the standard forward. Those are just some of the more overt homages; Western literature owes as much to fairy tales as it does to Greek myth and the Bible. 

 

-The New York Times

The Listening Tree

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Micah Dean Hicks | Jun 5, 2019

What made me want him? That supple, brutal kingsnake of a boy, wine-lipped and longhaired.

While Drinking Sangria

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Benjamin Niespodziany | May 8, 2019

You resemble an angel created in a landfill.

Genie in Pieces

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Claire Hero | Apr 24, 2019

Father is the name for what guards the front door. The world outside is full of noise. A truck, a lawnmower, a dog, and then another.

Meet the Editors! Part Two

Uncategorized | by The Editors | Aug 23, 2018

This time, we’re bringing you a behind-the-scenes look at a smattering of our newer readers!

The Robe

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Katherine Kim | Aug 15, 2018

Our father is a woodcutter driven to drink, and when he drinks he likes to talk.

Elegy for a Child Trapped Underground

From the Archives, Poetry | by Ashley Hudson | Aug 8, 2018

After the failed attempt to crawl up and out
the long neck of the well, I tried telling
forty seven tarnished pennies about you

Monster, a Meaning

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Maggie Queeney | Aug 1, 2018

Monstrum: a sign, a portent,
From the Latin, monere: to warm, from
the root men to think.

Salamandrine, My Kid

From the Archives, Prose | by Joyelle McSweeney | Jul 25, 2018

The twittering machine lies in its crib, rehabilitating its connections.

Garden

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Matt Morgenstern | Jul 18, 2018

Now that night she said we had to go dancing, but first we had to put on dresses.

‘Sunday Queen’ & ‘Queen’s Mother’ & ‘Queen’s Eulogy for Uncle’

From the Archives, Poetry | by Taisia Kitaiskaia | Jul 11, 2018

Queen is free as a mite
in the Lord’s mystical eyebrow,
growing ears for no reason.

‘Bigfoot Thumbs a Ride’ & ‘Animal Bride’

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Caylin Capra-Thomas | Jun 27, 2018

Once, there was nowhere to go. Nowhere
to get to. My movement through the slash
pines and saw palms was pure physical
expression.

Small Animal

From the Archives, Prose | by Aurelie Sheehan | Jun 13, 2018

Sara herself did not know the people throwing the party, but she went to the house in the woods anyway.

Coven

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Anna Cabe | Jun 6, 2018

We chant around the grill in our backyard every Friday the 13th to scare the neighbors who told the Homeowners’ Association our violet paint job was garish.

‘No Place (Dorothy Reconsiders)’ & ‘Dorothy in the Desert’

From the Archives, Poetry | by Rochelle Hurt | May 30, 2018

Out here the din of tin on tin hangs
just below an orphaned smudge of cumulus,
threatening fickle weather.

The Lemon Tree

From the Archives, Prose | by Ben Loory | May 23, 2018

A farmer was wandering through his orchard at harvest time, when he saw an apple hanging from one of his lemon trees.

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