“Stephen, how do you feel about living together with all six of Geileis’s brothers?” The well-intentioned doctor with her degrees framed and hanging on the wall, pulled down her glasses to stare at them, and Stephen leaned forward and fiddled with the cuffs of his shirt as though an animal were caught in his throat,…
Tag: Fairy Tales
Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “It’s in Her Kiss” by Tiffany Michelle Brown
Delilah has developed a fetish of the human-who-was-once-an-amphibian variety. Her predilection has progressed into a full-fledged addiction as three or four times a week, the door to our flat bursts open and a new prime specimen drips pond water onto the Ikea rug in the foyer. Delilah wears a proud smile and clings to their…
Transcendence by Brendan Foley
“My name was Cornelius Stack, and I have been lost to the wind for over a hundred years. Or so I think. I suppose I was once like you. I can remember the feel of skin, of my fingertips as they brushed against pieces of paper, played against the bark of a tree. I can…
What You See Is What You Get by Lori M. Myers
Can anyone understand the person who tosses a plastic water bottle into a crystal stream? Or perhaps, one who chucks a cardboard French fry holder aside some shrubs? Do we change the channel when that commercial airs about using dish detergent to wash oil gunk off a duckling’s feathers? I don’t. I just don’t. I…
Our TRANSCENDENT Authors: a Featured Interview with Abra Staffin-Wiebe
In our new author series, we’ll be offering a clairvoyant peek behind the veil of who and what makes up TRANSCENDENT. Here’s a glimpse at Abra Staffin-Wiebe and her story “Road of Dreams.” ABOUT THE STORY What inspired your story? Probably a dream. Did you have to do any research? If so, what kind?…
A TRANSCENDENT Excerpt: Kathryn Hore’s “Dark Moon”
By the time the path twists into the forest, the sunlight has gone, leaving no more than the pale light of the waning quarter moon. She is more comfortable with that, with the trees stretching overhead and the darkness buffeted around her. When there is light and space, an open stretch of ground, she can…
Bonfire by Will Waller
Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Will Waller, author of “Torch,” featured in our new anthology ON FIRE, out now. Toward the end of college, my friend Leon and I were in the habit of, probably illegally, having frequent bonfires on campus in a secluded circular parking lot located about a mile into the woods. We…
“Your Best Fairy Tale” by Claudia Quint
Fairy tales will never die. In the passage of time, we push them to the background. They fade from memory as we age, forgotten. While tucking a child into bed, we are faced with that timeless request to keep the dark at bay: “Tell us a story.” And in an instant, we are transported back…
Don’t Cross Tinkerbell by Lillian Csernica
The loving, helpful fairy godmother is largely a figment of Disney’s imagination. If you take a good look at the original fairy tales, fairy godmothers appear most often in stories written by the French précieuses, the best-known being Madame d’Aulnoy. These fairy godmothers are not the grandmotherly rescuer of Disney’s Cinderella, nor are they the…
Fairy tales: the good, the bad, and the ugly by Claire Davon
Enjoy the today’s tales but explore their pasts. It’s fascinating. You never know what you’re going to find.
Of Retellings by Rohit Sawant
There is no one right version of these fairy tales.
Beauty and the Beast: Welcome to the Dark Side by Lorraine Sharma Nelson
Love out of circumstance? Did Beauty live with the hand she was dealt?
