Hey, guys! Arisia is doing a special hardcover version of my annotated fairy tales (well, the ones that we can obtain copyright on, which, fortunately, is most of them) AND the Toad Words anthology, together in one volume! Pre-order yours today!
Category Archives: fairy tales
A new weird little short story, over at TKingfisher.com where I am trying to actually keep my short stories in some kind of easily accessible place…
In case anybody isn’t on Twitter, a very very short story in Tweets. Sky Blue and Grass Green
Well, gang, it’s late at night, I can’t sleep, and you know what that means! (Been awhile, hasn’t it? Honestly, there are so few that I find that are completely mind-blowingly freakish. I fear we’ve set the bar too high. I mean, you never see otters with multiple heads in most of these. Still, we’ll […]
I’ll be honest with you—I love this one. It’s very short compared to some of the drawn-out sagas we’ve seen and never once devolves into East of the Sun, West of the Moon, which is sort of the go-to fairy tale for dragging things out. So this’ll be a quick little afternoon amusement instead of […]
Would you believe that it was July when I last did one of these? Man. Time flies. Or maybe I just haven’t had insomnia nearly enough. This is a Finnish folktale, sent in by an Alert Reader, who said I had to read it and was so very, very right. It’s from a website called […]
…and then one day she realized that her life was not wonderful. That she was miserable. That people were being cruel to her, and when she said something, she was told to be grateful that she had friends that cared about her enough to treat her so cruelly for her own good. It probably won’t […]
Hey, gang! Time for yet another installment of Ursula Comments On Peculiar Fairy Tales. This time, since they’re both short, we’re doing two versions of Cinderella. One is Greek and one is from Georgia (Not the one with Atlanta.) They both have some very odd moments, but since neither is very long, it’d be a […]
We could probably all use a laugh today, and hopefully y’all aren’t sick of these yet… Big thanks to reader Persephone_Kore for sending a link to this one (and a couple others I still need to check out, too!) This one is short and sweet, and has a nice twist on some of the standard […]
A red-eyed vireo is lurking in the backyard, beating larvae to death on branches. In celebration of yard-bird number #54 (not bad for not being on a body of water!) I give you a bird-themed annotated fairy tale! This one’s from Serbia, bears strong resemblances to the Firebird story from Russia, and while much of […]
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