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It Has Come To My AttentionIt has come to my attention
that people like me
are generally not welcome in fairy tales.

It's the talking birds that do it.
The minute a sparrow shows up to pipe a direful warning
it's all over
down at the first hurdle
done

The body in the fifty-fathom well
will have to wait
the old woman turned into a hare
the murdered mother in the juniper tree
as I whip out my Sibley guide and look for the entry
with the fieldmark labeled capable of human speech.

For this crime
I have been accused of a failure of wonder
of having chained up my inner child and sent her
to work in the salt mines.

But the truth
(if you really want to kn

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The Tigers Brideby `ursulav

Digital Art / Other / Other

In a Pre-Raphaelite mood a while back, I cooked up this image, based on an Indian version of the Bluebeard story. (You know Bluebeard. He tells his new wife: "Don't open this door. This door. Right here. See this door? This one. With the bright...shiny...handle...Oh, by the way, I'm leaving town, here's the key. Don't open it, now. Remember." To no one's great surprise, she opens the door and find the bodies of the six previous wives.) In the Indian version, however, a woman marries a tiger, and I always thought the tiger got the short end of the stick. Gee. He eats people? Well, he's a frickin' TIGER! What did you expect?! How many vegan tigers do you know? Idiot. So when I painted this, my sympathy was entirely with the tiger, which is why he has a sort've besotted expression, and there's something a little malicious in the woman's smile.

Painter, photoshop, pencil.