Gathering Tears
PHOTOGRAPHY BY SARAH CHISHOLM PHOTOGRAPHY
I am a forest dweller. A child of dark, shadowy trees dripping in moss, and at home along the creek side,...
Sixteen Signs You May Be a Mermaid
• Your extra money goes to bath bombs, bath soaps, and perfumes.
• As a child, you practiced pressing your legs and feet together as...
Self-Portrait As Mythological Creature
I tore off my skin in the moonlight and became a seal, sleek
and noisy. One day a man put his arms around me, and
my...
Wrought By Rasputina
Rasputina’s formidable back catalog is like an old history library, the tiered kind, with sliding ladders, stained-glass windows, and oiled wood, where gilt-embossed titles...
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...
Why My Daughters Will Believe In Faeries
Last summer when my father in law came from Ireland to visit, we took my daughters hiking in the Kaaterskill Wild Forest in upstate New...
In Which I Decide to Grow Wings
because I can no longer feel my feet.
Was it a trick of genetics or a magic potion
that made my fingers into feathers or fins
ready...
An Interview With Sonalii Castillo & Some Faerie News
So we hope you are having a gorgeous Wednesday eve -- how could you not be? -- and thought we'd beautify it further with...
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 The Studio with Sarah Sparkles
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE PARKE
Sarah Sparkles is a crystal-loving mermaid in Brooklyn who’s worked on window displays for Bergdorf Goodman for over a decade—and has...