One Hundred Years of Dreaming by Chris Collins
The Old Woman’s Advice Calpurnia woke up screaming. Breathless, she gasped into consciousness, her panicked bosom heaving until the Oneiroi demon dislodged and shuffled off with a sneer. Clutching her husband’s arm as he rose, she told him of her dream and begged him – do not leave. And, laughing,…
Erysikthon by Phyllis Meshulam
A Thessalian king who chopped down the sacred grove of the goddess Demeter (Ceres) in order to build himself a feast-hall. Theoi Greek Mythology 1.A many-turreted tree, sacred to holy Ceres,twig-fingers webbed with new green,prayer flags attached. But he will have none of that. For lumber and his empire, it will be dispatched. “Foreman, henchmen,…
The Birdkeeper by D. Brody Lipton
Once, in a land far from here, a Birdkeeper toiled quietly in his aviary high in the hills overlooking a thriving city nestled in the valley below. From his home among the pine and fir trees, he could see roads and footpaths leading to the square, the shops and schools,…
The Ladies of Lancashire by Clay F. Johnson
Rooted atop a grassless hill existsA leafless, barkless cemetery tree,Its branches twist like curling witch-fingersPainting long, creeping shadows, aliveWith a flickering spectral-glow of black-Opal’d witches’ dust—floating mists of ghost-light—Capturing cold and lifeless flames withinThe deepening darkness of impending midnight As the shadows deepen, the tree-roots awaken, Enchanting the hill with illusions…
Fairer by December Lace
I was brought here as a clean prisoner, stone walls and a corset stealing breaths from my lungs,whalebone carving my waist, wilting my ribs. The stranger husband with foreign skin a scarier topography than the new land our manor was rooted in. My arrival brought downcast eyes and the vigorous scrubbing of her portrait every…
Snow White Sees the Mirror by Elizabeth Burk
Is that a strand of gray you see? What does the mirror say, if not that you are not what you seem to be, not what you think? You are vapor poured into a vase, delivered in smoke and sharp angles, a wolf in bear’s skin, howling and hairy sharp-mouthed, tongue-tied to another face…
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The Mirror Lies by Lucy Zhang
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C-A-G-E-D by Nancy Brewka-Clark
Mark crouched down in his usual spot behind the big rock and uncoiled the microphone cord. The battery-operated tape recorder was a big clumsy box of a thing, an ancient reel-to-reel that had belonged to his grandfather. But he could manipulate the knobs with his damaged hands. That was the…
Future Myth by Kelly Canaday
In 2250, children stabilize their cultural anxieties before opening their textbooks to the myth of Lululemon. They trace the upside-down u with horns as Egyptian children had traced the sign of Hathor during a beauty spell. What better sign of beauty is it to have everything already accounted for? To…
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