Cordelia, or the Price of Salt by SARA CLETO Photography by Bella Kotak

Cordelia, or the Price of Salt

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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

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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...
Study for Maidens Picking Flowers by the Stream (1911), by John William Waterhouse

The Witch’s Secret

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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...
Photography by Natalia Le Fay Follow Natalia Le Fay on Instagram @natalia_lefay.

An Excerpt From Signe Pike’s The Lost Queen

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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...
Rabbit Among the Fairies (19th century), by John Anster Fitzgerald

Into The Night Woods …With Moths, Bats, Mushrooms, Fairies, and Other...

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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...
Photography by Steve Parke Model: Crystal Chandler

Amulet

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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

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Photo by Natalya Letunova on Unsplash Article from Issue #40 Subscribe | Single Issue 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

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“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...
Image courtesy of NOAA Photo Library.

The Naturalist’s Dream of Mermaids Collecting In The Deep

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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...
Rachel Oakes-Illustration_The Dark Mother

Elder Mother

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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...