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How the Horse Girl Became Our Most Enduring (and Queerest) Archetype of Girlhood

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How the Horse Girl Became Our Most Enduring (and Queerest) Archetype of Girlhood

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Galloping Romance: Announcing M. Stevenson’s Behooved

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Some Thoughts on Tolkien’s Elf-Horses

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The Unexpected Horse Girls of Fantasy

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SFF Equines Revisits the Classics: Black Beauty

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A Master Class in Writing Horses: Horse by Geraldine Brooks

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SFF Equines Revisits the Classics: Walter Farley’s Black Stallion Books

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SFF Equines

The Messy and Complicated Fairy Tale of Horse Racing

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SFF Equines

Writing in the Language of Horse People

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SFF Equines

Transcending Words: The Real Fantasy of Human-Animal Communication

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Understanding Horses: Changing Seasons

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SFF Equines

Why Do Writers Abandon the Ordinary Horse for the Extraordinary Fantasy Animal?

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“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic.”

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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