Karin Wraley Barbee reads her story “Twenty-First-Century Fairy Tale.”
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Issue 19 | Winter 2019
Issue 19 includes work by Jesse Falzoi, Miguel Gardel, Fradl Shtok (translated by Jordan Finkin and Allison Schachter), Anu Kandikuppa, Daniel Uncapher, L.I. Sargis, Stefan Kiesbye, J S Khan, Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, Harford Hopson, Elvira Vigna (translated by Adrian Minckley) Luis Miguel Rivas Granada (translated by David Feller Pegg), Karin Wraley Barbee, Dennis Vannatta, Nadija Rebronja (translated by Ivana Maksić) Jared Pearce, Thomas Griffin, Stella Díaz Varín (translated by Rebecca Levi), and Kathleen Hellen. Cover art by Mary Burger.
Twenty-First-Century Fairy Tale
Karin Wraley Barbee
The first time I sat in the armchair by the fire, whiskey and biscuits on a silver plate, the housekeeper removed my shoes, gestured to the window with her aged brown hand at the moonlit garden, at a grizzly circling