by Fairy Tale Review | Sep 12, 2018 | Prose, Web Exclusives
My sister puts petals back into the earth. “Death should not be the only thing we find here,” she says and smiles at me, and I try not to look at the shape of her bones under her skin or how her teeth have grown long and sharp. She steps carefully, her weight too...
by Fairy Tale Review | Aug 29, 2018 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
as a child I couldn’t sleepmy parents tried ignoring me holding me stroking fingers down my backbut still I cried into the winter nights coyotes howled first one call a raindrop and then a whole storm of their chorus they’re hunting a deer my father saidto make me...
by Fairy Tale Review | Aug 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s been more than a half a year since our first Meet the Editors post, where we were introduced to many of the digital-focused editors who have been bringing you amazing web exclusives every other week. This time, we’re bringing you a behind-the-scenes...
by Fairy Tale Review | Aug 15, 2018 | Prose, Web Exclusives
Our father is a woodcutter driven to drink, and when he drinks he likes to talk. He sits cross-legged on the floor and grips the glass between his fingers and makes us stand in front of him. He likes to tell us that we look nothing like our mother—whose hair, whose...
by Fairy Tale Review | Aug 8, 2018 | From the Archives, Poetry
After the failed attempt to crawl up and out the long neck of the well, I tried telling forty seven tarnished pennies about you, about how with you my arms were two long hallways, my chest a lit-up crawl space. How without you cobwebs spelled their miserable messages...
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