Cordelia, or the Price of Salt
Father loved me better than my sisters. That sounds desirable, yes? To be best loved, to be the one desired?
The dresses he gave me were...
Nine Types of Ice
Garden Ice
I was alone when the cold began. Ice fell onto the gar-den like rain, only it was a pale green, so pale you...
The Witch’s Secret
Feature Image: Study for Maidens Picking Flowers by the Stream (1911),
by John William Waterhouse
Image Courtesy Wikimedia Commons
There was something strange about the cottage at...
An Excerpt From Signe Pike’s The Lost Queen
Photography by Natalia Le Fay Follow Natalia Le Fay on Instagram @natalia_lefay.
The Lost Queen by Simon & Schuster was published in September, 2018. Read...
Into The Night Woods …With Moths, Bats, Mushrooms, Fairies, and Other...
Spring has its freshness and promise, summer gets all that lush light, and winter brings cozy idle hours—but autumn is really the most creative...
Amulet
In the village where they lived everyone knew there was only one way for whomever went to meet the beast in the woods to...
The Night of The Witch
Photo by Natalya Letunova on Unsplash
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Every few years they came searching and this was the year they found them. Three sisters living...
Elizabethan Flower Magic: Oberon’s Trick in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”—Oberon...
The Naturalist’s Dream of Mermaids Collecting In The Deep
I. An expedition
More scientists than sirens, the mermaids
gather specimens with the stalking skill
of anglerfish. They catalogue all evidence
in an abyssopelagic lab, sterile in the...
Elder Mother
Grandmother Elder, that’s what they call me.
They can’t seem to agree if I am a tree or a shrub, which is fitting really—I’ve always...