The Scarlet Slippers
In the land of the Sand Riders, where women go veiled from top to toe, there lived a young man who dreamed of love....
In Search of the Sisterhood
The word Pre-Raphaelite almost always conjures up a certain kind of woman. She has a cascade of copper hair, a face filled with mournful...
The Woman Who Could Talk To Bees
Feature Image:
Models: Jo Maldonado and her service dog Baruh
There once was a small village tucked deep within a forest that seemed made for the...
Love Never Ending
Photography by Gale Zucker. Model Ali Weiss
At first she didn’t know a spell had been cast upon her husband. They had known each other...
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...
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...
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...
Creatures of the Snow
Art by Sigrid Rødli
The snow and ice bring with it a pantheon of winter spirits that range from the benevolent to the purely evil...
Whispers from the Hedgerow
Photography by Katerina Plotnikova
There are souls whose hearts beat out an unkept rhythm that can’t help but keep them on the margins of our...
My Arabian Superheroin
Every time my writing gets stuck, I ask myself, “How would Scheherazade get out of this?” Of course, she would know what to do. That’s...