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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

"Queen of Hearts" and "Libra Season"

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Ambalila Hemsell | Oct 11, 2019

Everyone
has a story about human greed and a flood. The Queen
licks the blood from her blade.

Baby Picture

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Suzannah Russ Spaar | Aug 28, 2019

We burn his photo under the tree. My friend, I trust her witchcraft.

Two Poems | Brett Shaw

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Brett Shaw | Jul 24, 2019

No wonder songs are so full of denial. And what
did you do about that?

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.

‘A Mouth And Its Name’ & ‘The Hour After Stars’

From the Archives, Poetry | by Mai Der Vang | May 16, 2018

You told me north water
was not built by virga
but from suicide of the moon.

‘Baby Bird’ & ‘The Barren Wife Gives Birth to a Girl’

From the Archives, Prose | by Jaclyn Dwyer | May 9, 2018

I will do the nursing. The suckling and swallowing. He will do the singing.

Spirit Medium

From the Archives, Poetry | by Sarah Messer | May 2, 2018

Now that my pen is made of glass
I pray to write of this loud tree
and not simply fashion

Magenta

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Molly Gutman | Apr 24, 2018

Once lived a woman wrapped in a magenta skin so brilliant she glowed, but the story doesn’t start like that.

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