with Jane YolenFirebird 2009Edited by Sharyn November The single creepiest story I have ever written—and I like to think that’s a pretty high bar. An edgy YA story that touches on abuse, insanity, and the thin line between the dream state and the waking world. I imagined the ending while in that strange place we […]
Starscape 2006 with Jane Yolen In the second Rock ‘n Roll Fairy Tale, young musicians and Dairy Princesses are dragged into Trollholm and trust the help of a mysterious fox-spirit to help them escape. Buy Troll Bridge from your local indie bookstore. “Drawing elements from ‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses’ and ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff,’ […]
Tor Books 2005 A Rock-n-Roll Fairy Tale that re-envisions the tale of the pied piper in modern times. Winner of the 2006 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book. Buy Pay the Piper from your local indie bookstore. “Yolen and her son, a professional musician, have produced a rollicking good riff on the Pied Piper.” […]
Appeared in Faerie Tales edited by Martin H Greenberg and Russel Davis My creepy take on the brewery of eggshells tale. The title is from a Martin Luther quote regarding changelings, and how they are but a piece of flesh as they have no soul. “Nowhere in the twelve original stories in this anthology is […]
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