I once read Snow White every day for a week. Sunday On the first day, I read Snow White and considered the color red. As many versions of red exist…
She first sees him in the mirror, over her mother’s shoulder. She’s asking about the canapes, and where to have the workman set up the marquis, and the housekeeper who…
The woman heard a noise like the sound of lightning—it was small, so small it might have just been the intention of lightning—from inside her locked room. She pressed her…
PART I We told everyone beforehand not to stare. That the Minotaur was, different. Was half and half. Was not like other party people. We thought he would be a…
I dream of a girl with copper coins covering her eyes. She flies over hard packed snow in a sleigh pulled not by horses, but swirls of snowflakes that take…
On that spit of sea-spying land Alexander the Great claimed and named as his own, war finally forced itself like a sick lover. My father would hurry my French stepmother…
Once and many times, there lived a man who, devoting himself to beauty, swore that he would take no wife unless she was as beautiful as a rose. Finding no…
The men of Silverkeep made her weep. They strung her up in the town square to a fat post, agreed to throw the key onto the lake’s floor. They fought…
When Mama loses another baby, Papa goes to the Folder in town, and has me made. Papa’s not a rich man, so I don’t get a mouth, because that costs…
My sister keeps a snow globe and whispers wishes into it before bedtime. She says the globe brings bad luck to little girls like me, so stay away. I peek…
