Sister and Bones
Apr. 25th, 2011 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessBack in at the end of January, Demeter's Spicebox, a new project of the always marvelous Cabinet Des Fees, posted guidelines for their new project: stories based on Aarne-Thompson folktale type 711, perhaps better known as the tale of the Good and Ugly Twin. Oh, and the stories had to feature either a cracked teapot or a magical pair of shoes.
I was not that familiar with the tale, but when I reread the version not in Wikipedia , I could see why the editors had chosen it, even if the ending irked me: quite apart from all of the drinking (yay!), it is one of the rare fairy tales with an active, rambunctious heroine. And although I'm not into shoes, I am more than moderately fond of tea.
Something stirred, and Sister and Bones was written in under a day, and is now up at the inaugural issue of Demeter's Spicebox. Also up: Lavanya and Deepika, a lovely story by a writer I'd never heard of before, Shveta Thakrar, but who based just on this has a brilliant writing career in front of her; fortunately for all of us she is working on a novel. I'm very pleased to have been part of the beginning of this project, and very much looking forward to see what wonders Demeter's Spicebox will be bringing us next.
I was not that familiar with the tale, but when I reread the version not in Wikipedia , I could see why the editors had chosen it, even if the ending irked me: quite apart from all of the drinking (yay!), it is one of the rare fairy tales with an active, rambunctious heroine. And although I'm not into shoes, I am more than moderately fond of tea.
Something stirred, and Sister and Bones was written in under a day, and is now up at the inaugural issue of Demeter's Spicebox. Also up: Lavanya and Deepika, a lovely story by a writer I'd never heard of before, Shveta Thakrar, but who based just on this has a brilliant writing career in front of her; fortunately for all of us she is working on a novel. I'm very pleased to have been part of the beginning of this project, and very much looking forward to see what wonders Demeter's Spicebox will be bringing us next.