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Rachel Ayers

Rachel Ayers lives in Alaska, where she writes cabaret shows, daydreams, and looks at mountains a lot. She has a degree in Library and Information Science which comes in handy at odd hours, and she shares speculative poetry and flash fiction (and cat pictures) at patreon.com/richlayers.

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Illustration from S.C. Hall's The Book of British Ballads (1842)
Books
Fairy Tales

Folklore Meets Murder Ballad: Six Retellings of “The Cruel Sister”

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Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in Dracula (1931)
Featured Essays
vampires

Bite or Flight: Ranking Classic Vampire Strengths and Weaknesses

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Cover art from Winter Rose by Patricia A McKillip (illustration by Kinuko Y. Craft)
Books
Fairy Tales

A Knight to Remember: Six Retellings of the Story of Tam Lin

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Art from the album cover of Frank Loesser's Thumbelina and Wonderful Copenhagen, 1952
Books
Fairy Tales

Don’t Marry the First Mole You Meet: Five Retellings of “Thumbelina”

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Beth Riesgraf as Parker and Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison in season 3 of Leverage: Redemption
Movies & TV
heists

Recapturing the Magic of Leverage: Heists, Cons, and Competence Porn

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Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) runs towards a pair of red ballet shoes in The Red Shoes (1948)
Books
Fairy Tales

Retelling “The Red Shoes”: The Most Fabulous Cursed Accessory

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Painting of a woman pouring water from a bucket into a trough for a flock of geese
Books
Fairy Tales

Stolen Identities and Class Conflict: Six Savvy Retellings of “The Goose Girl”

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Illustration of a scene from "Diamonds and Toads" or "The Fairies": A young woman fills a jug of water, while an old woman rests in the background.
Books
Fairy Tales

“Diamonds and Toads”: A Fairy Tale About Getting What You Deserve?

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Illustration: Beauty sits on a chair at a dining table while the Beast sits beside her on the floor
Books
Fairy Tales

Five Thorny Retellings That Offer a Twist on “Beauty and the Beast”

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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