by Fairy Tale Review | Oct 22, 2018 | Contests
We are thrilled to announce this year’s FAIRY TALE REVIEW AWARDS IN POETRY AND PROSE. As always, we were stunned by the high quality of the submissions we received, and so grateful to our esteemed final judges. We can’t wait for you to read the winning work in The...
by Fairy Tale Review | Oct 10, 2018 | Prose, Web Exclusives
We were always trying to get her attention. “Your mother is busy,” said our father. “She is an important woman.” We ignored him. With his leathery hands, and papery skin, eyebrows like raspberry brambles, and eyes like moths wings, we felt he was largely overrated. He...
by Fairy Tale Review | Oct 3, 2018 | From the Archives, Poetry
It’s the one about the bears and their blonde: In their many beds I left many cells, called my multiple personalities down, their faces to the sky a slide show of cheap reference, chanteuses orphaned by a wave of bear. Life should have piano accompaniment— so as...
by Fairy Tale Review | Sep 26, 2018 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
D D is for dragon and damsel, diamond and diadem. For deciduous woods, their dropping leaves. For dew and the dewclaws of deer. For deciduous teeth, delicate as dimes or decimals. For daughters and daughter cells. For Daedalus, who (although dexterous, deliberate,...
by Fairy Tale Review | Sep 19, 2018 | From the Archives, Prose
This hurts a lot, but it’s true. It is astral projection gone wrong. It is her body in his body and his body in her body and it is not sexual. Not every time you are inside a person is sexual. There is birth and surgery and dentistry and bulge or wetness or at...
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