#otherworlds

I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Dark Wood….feeling so Fae right now. 

Re-reading an old favourite - Snow White, Blood Red by Elen Datlow and Terri Windling.

“Metaphor, perhaps, is the tame, the civilised, version of shamanic shapeshifting, word-magic, the recognition of stories as toothed messengers from the wilds. What if we turned the old nursery rhymes and fairytales we all know into feral creatures once again, set them loose in new lands to root through the acorn fall of oak trees? What else is there to do, if we want to keep any of the wildness of the world, and of ourselves?“

bySylvia Linsteadt.