by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 28, 2018 | Prose, Web Exclusives
For Aaron Fai and Masaki Matsuo Margaret Morri was the name Yoshikane Araki used when referring to an apparition who squeezed under the doorway or window mesh or rose between barrack floorboards to haunt the hot desert air above his straw mattress. At the age of...
by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 21, 2018 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
Convenant I the organ harvest is most/ delectable beneath fluorescent light/ rebelling against the heaving stars/ the shock of being/ locked inside a/warehouse without exits/ the delirium of chewing dark/ meat/ workers dance around the rock circle/ they dig points of...
by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 14, 2018 | Prose, Web Exclusives
The day her husband died, Sleeping Beauty gave back to him the kiss he had bestowed upon her consentless lips sixty years before. Their daughter did not kiss him; kisses were for true love, and she felt no such affection for her now-late father. She only squeezed his...
by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 8, 2018 | Contests, Fairy Tale Review News
On February 26, 2018, we asked our Twitter followers to tell us the biggest and most beautiful stories they could within Twitter’s longer, and more storytelling-friendly, 280-character limit. We were overwhelmed and overjoyed with the response, with more than...
by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 7, 2018 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
I’ve made the pitcher on my table human again. Her elegant white neck, belly slightly bloated with flowers. Candles my mother stole stand in borrowed silver candlesticks, and I can’t understand why one has burnt faster than the other. If I bought these sleek white...
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