A Letter from the Editor's Desk

The Reading Room

Married to Magic

by Terri Windling

“The fairy tale writers of the French salons challenged the practice of arranged marriages, promoting ideas of love, fidelity, and civilité between the sexes. Their Animal Bridegroom tales embodied the real-life fears of women who could be promised to total strangers in marriage, and who did not know if they'd find a beast or a lover in their marriage bed ”

The Monkey Girl

by Midori Snyder

“The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me what I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and complex woman, unique to herself but willing to share those considerable gifts with a man capable of intuiting the wealth of her worth hidden beneath the skin.”

How the Ocean Loved Margie

A Story by Laurie J. Marks

“The seals undulated out of the water, humping their bodies across the stones. More arrived behind them. They surrounded her: gray as salt-aged cedar, speckled with bits of white and black, earless, with deep, human eyes.”

The Gallery

Myth and Metaphor: the art of Jacqueline Morreau

by Terri Windling

“Foremost among the artists working with myth today is the painter and printmaker Jacqueline Morreau, who uses the symbols of myth to explore the personal and political truths of women's lives.”

The Coffeehouse: Poetry

Knives

by Jane Yolen

The View

by Emma Hardesty

Wings

by Kim Antieau

Big Foot

by Mario Milosevic