The Little Mermaid Warns You, You May Have Already Become Forgotten
Painting by Anne Bachelier
Your once-silken voice will desert you, your legs
will make every step on land a torture.
There will come a time when you...
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...
An Interview With Theresa Carle-Sanders of OUTLANDER KITCHEN
As any fan will tell you, the Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon have many pleasures. Not least among them is how they immerse you in...
What You Need to Cast a Spell to Rid a House...
Historic clothing created and modeled by Seamstress of Rohan.
Photography by Helena Aguilar Mayans.
Take a spoon, silver’s best, but any spoon
Will do, so long 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...
A Talk With Deep Midnight Perfumes Creator Cat Marx
So Cat, how did you come to perfumery?
I started making perfume oils in 1996 for myself, friends and family. In 2003, I began selling...
The One-Armed Swan Sister
I find it is much harder to sew
now that one of my arms has become
a giant white wing. It’s nonsense
to assume, of course, a...
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...
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...