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Fantastic Voyages: By Ship to Nowhereland and Back Part III
The third and final part of Fantastic Voyages… (don’t forget Part I and Part II)
MEDIEVAL MYSTERY MAPS
Notions of an isolated, blissful, sacred refuge continued to beguile dreamers as well as religious mystics long after the fall of Rome and the descent of the so-called Dark Ages. The proselytizing monks of Ireland during the … Read entire article »
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The Girl With Glass Feet – review
by Ali Shaw, 2009
reviewed by Erzebet YellowBoy
St. Hauda’s Land is a remote island tucked away behind commercial whaling ships, where poverty has led to an exodus of its traditional sea-faring families. Midas … Read more »
Fantastic Voyages: By Ship to Nowhereland and Back Part II
Part one of Fantastic Voyages: By Ship to Nowhereland and Back continues…
THE CRUISE SHIP: MARITIME FAIRYLAND
We can associate many of these fantasies of a temperate, peaceful and luxuriant neverland in the … Read more »
The Wolf I Want by Virginia M. Mohlere
for Miwa Yanagi
Wolfness. In my sleep sometimes I still smell the stomach of the wolf: sour with bile, my sweat and Grandmother’s, the acrid funk of … Read more »
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Bad Mothers by Anne Brannen
I knew my elder sister would return to sweep the ashes. She would part sugar from sand, she would fill my mouth with honey. She would bring shoes, red ones with buckles. She would raise me. I would be buried under the juniper tree, I would be … Read more »
Folkpunk 101: A Reading List by Tanya B. Avakian
In the spirit of a college syllabus, I am offering a reading list of what I consider to be basic materials pertaining to the modern world's creative struggle with its folkloric heritage. An acquaintance with these works will not only provide … Read more »
The Bear and the Bicycle by Catherine Knutsson
A circus tent sat in the middle of a field. Red and green streamers danced from the tent’s top as the sun shone down, smiling at the circus. Wagons surrounded the tent and if a person wandered by, the … Read more »
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The Girl With Glass Feet – review
by Ali Shaw, 2009
reviewed by Erzebet YellowBoy
St. Hauda’s Land is a remote island tucked away behind commercial whaling ships, where poverty has led to an exodus of its traditional sea-faring … Read entire article »
Fantastic Voyages: By Ship to Nowhereland and Back Part II
Part one of Fantastic Voyages: By Ship to Nowhereland and Back continues…
THE CRUISE SHIP: MARITIME FAIRYLAND
We can associate many of these fantasies of a temperate, peaceful and luxuriant neverland … Read entire article »
Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story – review
by Carolyn Turgeon, 2009
Reviewed by Erzebet YellowBoy
It was a beautiful, lazy afternoon. The sun was shining, the bees were zipping from flower to flower and I was preparing to lie … Read entire article »
The release of Issue 9
Fairy tales must be told. How else will we ever find our way through the woods?
Cabinet des Fées is pleased to celebrate with you the release of our 9th issue. … Read entire article »
Andersen, Feet, and Hell’s Waiting Room By Kate Wolford
Hans Christian Andersen may be best known for writing “The Little Mermaid,” “The Ugly Duckling,” and the “Emperor’s New Clothes,” but his lesser-known stories may reveal more about the author … Read entire article »
Lord Feintheart by Kirsty Logan
he prowls, primps,
wipes his fingerprints
on the glowing buttons of the jukebox.
new flesh, and
he’s
propping up the bar: hair tousled, boots
pointed, cigarettes bulking his pocket.
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Waking Beauty by Lyn C. A. Gardner
The time they lose is not the same as mine.
No spell decreed they’d not decay with time
Like cheese and cherries, chocolate, even wine
That blackens to a sludge, … Read entire article »
Grimm Modernity by Jesika Brooks
“Herr Grimm,” said the professor,
staring down the side-burned, half-cocked smile;
a man who knows too much, a German in modern fairytale.
”Und Sie auch, Herr Grimm.”
The brothers snigger … Read entire article »
Tears in the Sea by David Sklar
After the single went silver, Dad bought us a house on the Jersey Shore, but he wasn’t there with us much because he had to go on tour. And every … Read entire article »
CdF in Print
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making began as a book-within-a-book in Catherynne M. Valente's adult novel, Palimpsest, a part of the protagonist’s childhood, a strange novel for children written in the 1920s, about a young girl spirited away to Fairyland by the Green Wind, and her adventures there, battling the wicked Marquess, befriending outlandish creatures, and growing up. Available to read online with donations requested.
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