For this month, I chose stories from web exclusives and archives of Fairy Tale Review, which is an “annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy tales and to helping raise public awareness of fairy tales as a diverse, innovative art form.” As with the previous five months, I have no idea what these stories are about – the goal is simply to experience new writing. Feel free to read along!
- “The Listening Tree” by Micah Dean Hicks
- “Genie in Pieces” by Claire Hero
- “Avenue” by Sharma Shields
- “Of Humankind” Miriam Bird Greenberg
- “Homecoming” by Molly Fessler
- “In Which Hansel is Gretel and Gretel is Hansel” by Brandi Wells
- “Planting Petals” by Kristi DeMeester
- “The Robe” by Katherine Kim
- “Garden” Matt Morgenstern
- “Salamandrine, My Kid” by Joyelle McSweeney
- “Coven” by Anna Cabe
- “Small Animal” by Aurelie Sheehan
- “The Lemon Tree” by Ben Loory
- “Magenta” by Molly Gutman
- “The Seed and The Stone” by Julian K. Jarboe
- “a disappearance beside the yatsushiro sea” by Kiik A-K
- “Sleeping Beauty’s Daughter” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
- “No Girls Allowed” by Anne Valente
- “Oyster” by Inez Tan
- “Juniper” by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
- “Gifts from the Sea” by Naoko Awa (Translated by Toshiya Kamei)
- “The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone” by Kellie Wells
- “Blue Funk” by Rikki Ducornet
- “The Season of Daughters” by Zachary Doss
- “Family: A Fairy Tale” by Ira Sukrungruang
- “The Peach Boy” by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- “Appleless” by Aimee Bender
- “Wolf Lessons” by Wren Awry
- “Suddenly” by Carmen Giménex Smith
- “Brother and Sister” by Elise Winn
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