A young woman appears on the road in mid-step, and a silvery peal of chimes fills the air of the tower chamber. “A special one. A strong dreamer,” Lady Felicity says. She tries to see better and nearly falls, bracing herself against the wall until she’s steady again. The strong dreamer teeters in cheap high…
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Fairy Tales My Father Never Told Me by Dimitra Nikolaidou
“Why won’t you read me Cinderella?” “I have another story, one you’ve never heard…” Long after I had learned to read myself and stopped requesting bedtime stories, my dad let slip the reason he never bought me Cinderella or Snow White or any other classic fairy tale: he was angered by the fact that the…
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