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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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Voodoo Teaby `ursulav

Traditional Art / Paintings / Fantasy

To the voodoo doll's secret shame, it had never quite gotten the knack of loose leaf tea. It had dozens of canisters and tins, all of them quite lovely, but confronted with the mess of tea balls and strainers, it generally just wound up guiltily dunking a teabag.
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Another quick little piece. Not autobiographical. No. Not in the slightest. Don't know anybody like that. 5.5 x 6.5ish, original is for sale, prints are available for $10 plus shipping--send a note or visit Red Wombat Studio at [link] for details!

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~L1ghtningpaw Apr 11, 2013

this is wonderful, you managed to make something that i would normally find scary, into something cute and accessible

*FridgeLogic Jan 14, 2012

I'm going to bore you with some free advice that you've already thought of: the story should be printed on the picture. Then you can enjoy both when you hang it up.