My rather silly story, Great Gerta and the Mermaid, about a pirate, a mermaid, a ruby and a Lost Boy, is now free to read at Lightspeed Magazine. It’s a story about certain aspects of Neverland as depicted in the book, not the film.
And because I see I forgot to mention it here when it came out earlier, my very different story, “A Selection of Drinks from the Courts of the Five Silver Moons and the Seven Red Stars” appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of Lackington’s, available here.
Some fairy tales leave me cheering for the wrong side. Particularly “The Goose Girl.” I mean, think about it. We’re supposed to be totally on the side of the princess, and totally against the maid. But who in this fairy tale, exactly, is walking around talking to drops of blood? The princess. Who in this fairy tale, exactly, is constantly calling up a wind to blow away the hat of her mostly innocent coworker? The princess. Who in this fairy tale, exactly, is talking to the head of a dead horse? Again, the princess.
And who, exactly, ends up dead in the end?
Not the princess.
My little poem about it, The Chambermaid, just went up on Kaleidotrope today.
Enjoy!
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