A Magazine of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
The title of the text recalls the “Sleeping Beauty” fairy tale. The text also preserves two of its most important characters: the sleeper and the wake‑r. The girl’s condition that forces her to stay captive in an antiseptic bubble is symbolic for the princess who is held captive in her own sleep. Read on …
With ”The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone,” Kellie Wells rewrote the story of Little Red Riding Hood, presenting it as a corrupt version of the story by changing the gender roles. She states that with this version, she tried to make it “kind of garishly lit, demi-lucid dream”, Read on …
He senses she is curious and there is only certain path she could take, the path where he leads her to. The other half is an anticipation of the murder. This is what he longs for. Read on …
To get to this village she had to pass through the North Forest. She was not afraid; she took her father’s dagger, had some poisonous plant extracts in liquid form (that is, if she was attacked, she could just throw something on that person’s skin to cause burns or rashes) and carried her viper-poison ointment in case she got hurt. Read on …
That night the Princess had a strange dream, but she could not remember the details, so I apologize to my reader for this misfortune. The Princess woke up and went to the dining room. Everything was so quiet, apparently everyone was sleeping, or not. Read on …
Selected and Translated by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers “My stories are a mirror. People see themselves in them. If they see evil, it means they’re evil. If they see good, it means they’re good.” (Petrushevskaya qtd. in Guzeva 2018) Mysterious, unpredictable, hallucinating, brutal, yet honest, empathic and preserving a pure and direct style – Read on …
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful kingdom where everything was purple: the houses were purple, the trees were purple, the animals, and even some people’s eyes and hair were purple. And this kingdom was Read on …