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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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The Princess Bride

Neither Princess Nor Bride: Why Buttercup Is the Hero of Her Own Story

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Juliet Marillier

Where to Begin Reading the Work of Juliet Marillier

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comfort reads

Finding Comfort in the (Fictional) Apocalypse

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Fairy Tales

Grimmer Than Most Fairy Tales: Five Intriguing Retellings of “Bluebeard”

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Roger Zelazny

A Night in the Lonesome October Is a Perfectly Tricky Halloween Treat

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apocalyptic fiction

Finding Comfort in Apocalyptic Stories

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Fairy Tales

Five Fairy Tale Mashups That Show How All Our Stories Are Connected

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Photo of the stacks at the Stockholm Public Library
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books

Where Fantasy Meets Reality: The Magic of Libraries

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Illustration by Kay Nielsen from East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914)
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Fairy Tales

Five Empowering Retellings of “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”

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“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness

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