Grimm

Little Red Tatterhood

/ Liz H-H / 15 Comments
Empty city street, except for a tree growing up in the middle of a wide red brick sidewalk. Tree has a dark vertical split near its basem with two bright red Amanita Muscaria mushrooms on either side of the split.

© Ayr/Gray

Perhaps Rose could have been more wary on her weekly walk to Granny’s apartment, but she knew the way and felt confident in her red cape and hood. How could she go wrong? It had plenty of pockets! And she had her wooden spoon to fend off any attackers.      Continue reading →

Solstice: Fortune’s Path

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picture of a raven, denotes possibe magical doings

Happiest Winter Solstice. The days get longer from here on in! 🌞

Delighted and honored to be published (as alter-ego Tessa Kjeldsdottir) in Eternal Haunted Summer’s Winter Solstice e-zine (https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/)! Click on the link for full access to this issue’s poetry, short stories, and essays, and more.

Click (https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2024/fortunes-path/ ) to go directly to my short story “Fortune’s Path”, a Hansel & Gretel re-visioning, with a surprise ending.

Many thanks to Karen, Kate and Alice for beta-reading and encouragement!

 

Eye of the Sparrow

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Announcement of newsletter at LissaSloan.com

I spy, with my little eye, a newsletter right now, a book coming in Spring 2024, and immediately, the poem that inspired the tale! From Lissa Sloan:

Wishes are dangerous. 

They can bring you a night out, a gown, a pair of slippers. Or something you never should have wished for.

After the royal wedding, the girl in the glass slippers has everything she wanted: an escape from a life of drudgery, an innate magical gift, and a devoted husband who looks at her like she is the only one in the room. But all wishes come with a price. To the people of the palace, she is an outsider, nothing more. Even her famous shoes cannot help her—the glass slippers no longer fit.

GLASS AND FEATHERS–out in 2024 from The Enchanted Press

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