I live in Northern Virginia, and it seems like every winter the schools shut down for two weeks. Sometimes they shut down after a dusting of snow, presumably because the bus stops *might* be slippery. Other times they shut down at the mere threat of snow. Kids love the snow days, but they wreak havoc […]
The Frog Next Door
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Frog-King, or Iron Henry from Grimm’s Fairy Tales Jan Caldwell was a divorced single mom with three handsome sons. But the youngest of her sons, Ash, was especially striking. Whenever his grandfather came to visit the grandsons, he would often tell the youngest that the sun was astonished whenever […]
The Headstrong Child
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Wilful Child from Grimm’s Fairy Tales Once upon a time there was a child who was headstrong, and would not listen to his dad. For this reason, he had bad karma and got very sick. No doctor could help him, and he soon died. When they put him in […]
The Boy of Hinkel
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Maid of Brakel from Grimm’s Fairy Tales A boy from Hinkel went to St. Finnegan’s Chapel at the foot of the Brannenberg. He wanted to have a wife and thought there was no one else in the chapel. The boy knelt beneath the statue of Saint Finnegan and his […]
The Tale of Wonders
A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Ditmarsch Tale of Wonders from Grimm’s Fairy Tales I will tell you something. I saw two rotisserie chickens flying. They flew upside-down in the sky. I also saw an anvil and a millstone float across the river. I watched a frog sit on the sidewalk and swallow a bicycle. […]
A Riddling Tale
A gender-flipped modern retelling of A Riddling Tale from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.