A Glass of Goodness
For many years, while our children were still small, enjoying the fruits of summer meant running through open fields in search of wild berries,...
An Excerpt From Signe Pike’s The Lost Queen
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The Lost Queen by Simon & Schuster was published in September, 2018. Read...
An Interview with Signe Pike
Read an excerpt from The Lost Queen
Faerie Magazine: Many of our readers were fans of your first book, Faery Tale. Tell us about that...
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...
Lost In A Fairy Tale
The Witch-Wife
Light the fire, sweetheart. I am cold,
cold and wet to the skin.
I have been chasing, over hill and dale,
a ewe that heard a...
Lady In The Meads
My feet leap in the world of Faerie
My body dances in my sacred grove.
In my eyes, you see something wild –
something you cannot tame...
Professor Tolkien and the Faries
J.R.R. Tolkien believed in fairies. At least, he as though they were real in his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” first given as the Andrew Lang...
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...
A quick chat with New York mermaids Kai Altair and Ali...
Faerie Magazine: What does it mean to be a mermaid in New York?
Kai Altair: We are so lucky that New York City is surrounded...
The Makara and His Meal
The makara peered out of the river, letting the sunshine, as warm and yellow as melted ghee, dribble down over his elephantine snout. He’d...