by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 25, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Books
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors. In The Juniper Tree, a jealous stepmother kills her stepson and feeds his bones to the boy’s father. Later, the boy’s sister buries the...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 22, 2015 | Pins & Needles
No. 38: Christina Kloess Q. “The house is alive.” Do you think every house has a kind of life? What about the place you’re living now? I believe every building has a life: a soul, or a lack of a soul. I don’t mean the anachronistic things that make up its...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 18, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Books, Fairy-Tale Files
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors. In the Chinese fairy tale “Sung Ting-po Catches a Ghost,” the protagonist stumbles across a ghost while heading to market in the...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 15, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Books
No. 37: Majda Gama Q. Fairy tales are oral in nature, and you capture that with how the headdress is from a time “when tongue trumped ink, skin and skull held words; words held worlds.” Which is more powerful, the oral or the written word? The orally transmitted word...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 14, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Miscellany
Scientific Hyrtls We turn to the dead to understand the processes of life. Mute and empty-eyed, 139 human skulls stare down from their perches along the wall of the exhibition hall of the Philadelphia College of Physicians’ Mütter Museum. Beneath each a simple...
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