The Fairytales Issue

No. 25, winter 2025

Enter a realm of mysterious magics and clever creatures that lies just beyond the shadowy veil between town and forest, meadow and swamp, where myth and folklore come to life, and classic stories emerge with new, modern vitality.

F(r)iction #25: Fairytales offers an enchanting blend of folklore, fantastic magic, and mischievous fey. Join us for fiction, poetry, and essays on famous fables, cat-kings, magic mirrors, immortal marriages, life-changing miracles, and more. As do the darkest woods, these pages hold secrets and mysteries begging to be uncovered.

In these pages, best-selling The Atlas Six trilogy author Olivia Blake crafts a social media influencer’s fairytale, Wicked Lovely writer Melissa Marr invites us to the court of a monarch mouser, and fantasy-author Brenna Yovanoff takes us to the macabre Midnight Market. F(r)iction #25: Fairytales also features a Rashomon-style take on Snow White, a stunning suite of poems about Mamă Pădurii, a haunting exploration of Humpty Dumpty, and a new student comic memoir from Frames Comic Program alum, Eric Boylan. Plus, a community feature with CantoMundo, and so much more!

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