You might figure that someone who revised the classic tale of Red Riding Hood in her chapbook Our Wolves might be interested in fairy tales. And I am!!! Today I have three fairy tales I’d like to share with you. The first two are new publications, and the third is personal.
This flash story, “The Floromancy of Identification,” in Panoply is in the folk tale style, but puts a new spin on things. The whole issue is wonderful, and I think you can skip around from this link to mine to other poems and stories.
https://shorturl.at/LKk6M
The second is in the new issue of Last Stanza Poetry Journal and responds to the cover image, an illustration by Swedish artist john Bauer and in the tradition of troll literature. The idea of a changeling has long fascinated me. Definition from Oxford: “child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents’ real child in infancy.” Trolls are also known for creating changelings by stealing human babies.
You should be able to click on the cover image below to get to Amazon.
Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue #19: Fable
Now to the third fairy tale. The gardener and I are celebrating our FIFTIETH wedding anniversary this month. I know, wild, huh? And just like in fairy tales, we have had some real curveballs thrown at us by trolls, giants, and monsters (which are sometimes us).
But we prevailed, and here we are: fifty years out. It’s so hard to believe since I can remember all those early days so well.
The “kids” and baby grandson all took us out for a wonderful dinner and gave us a poster montage featuring the legendary (to our family) photo of the Holiday Inn where we had a dinner-dance reception (and even found some vintage postcards of the hotel). The marquee out front has our names on it. The kids love that photo, and my brother resends it to me every year!
Full disclosure: above photo is at the 42nd anniversary point . . . . But I kinda like it.
Happy anniversary! That is a big milestone.
Thank you! Gotta take it in small chunks haha.
Always a treat to read your writing. Your poem take me somewhere I wouldn’t find on my own. Congratulations on 50!
Ellen, thank you so much for reading. I so appreciate it. And thank you! Hah 50!
Happy Anniversary! And thanks for posting about fairytales. My fav. I too am fascinated by the changeling idea. Love your poetry, Luanne. Always so relatable and often gives me pause to consider bigger things.
Thank you so much, Eden. The mythology you “revise” in your novels is so much like fairy tales, so I am not surprise you say that about FT. Interesting that you are fascinated by the changeling, too!!!!
Congratulations, Luanne.
thank you so much, Anneli! Oh, this backup laptop is so annoying. It makes so many mistake :).
Congratulations on all your poetry success and your 50th. What a great milestone, Luanne.
Thank you so much, John, for both. Yes, definitely a milestone. What comes next haha?
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Happy Anniversary!!! That is a great photo of the two of you! Congratulations on your poetry!!!
Thank you so much, Linda! I do like that pic, one of the best of us, although there is another one from more years ago, so I thought that might be pushing it ;).
Congratulations on your most recent publications, Luanne! My heart aches for that poor little girl. Congratulations on your fiftieth wedding anniversary!!
Thanks so much, Liz. Means a lot to me!
You’re welcome, Luanne.
Congratulations, Luanne. What joy!
Thanks so much, Jacqui!!!
Congratulations on 50 years together! That is a major milestone, indeed. A fairy tale marriage, as you say.
Eilene, thank you so much! From the inside, not always fairy tale, but definitely over the long haul it is. I know we can be pretty proud!
Wow, Happy Anniversary!! So much to celebrate!
Thanks so much, Polly Morse!!! So much!!! All month . . . until the grandbaby’s first birthday near the end of the month!
I love all your fairy tales, especially your third one, Luanne! Happy 50th! Wow! Did your grandbaby dance for you? 🙂
Miriam, thank you so much! Haha, he dances for everything. He sits and bounces to the music! Not quite walking yet. He’s cruising, but not taking his hand off the wall, chair, etc.
Happy 50th Anniversary to you and the gardener, Luanne. Quite the milestone. And I love that poem!
Thanks so much, Jennifer!!!! Lots of truth in that poem, I think.
I love all three fairy tales, especially the last and real one. Long marriages are magical, aren’t they?
But I also really loved the poem. Don’t we all sometimes wonder whether our parents somehow took home the wrong baby?
Thank you so much, Amy!
Yes, about the poem. I never felt that I fit with my parents. I still don’t, really. Maybe most people feel that way?
Maybe it’s just part of differentiating yourself and finding your own identity?
Yes, that sounds right to me.
Congratulations on all of your wonderful achievements, Luanne, including your 50th wedding anniversary. We are celebrating 24 this year.
Congratulations, Robbie! The years mount up year by year as long as we work hard at being married!
And thank you!
Yes, luckily, I don’t have to work that hard at it. We get along very well.
That’s very lucky!
Yes, I suppose it is
I enjoyed your flash fairy tales! I might have to try that. Sounds like fun and I love fairy tales. Congrats on 50 years! That’s a big one. And I know all the mending that goes on keeping a marriage quilt that old in good shape. Dale and I will be celebrating (shall I say it?!) our 54th this spring.
Congratulations, Deborah! Yes, lots of mending heh. Thank you re the flash. Yes, you should try these. I think that flash is a good genre for fairy tales.
Happy fiftieth anniversary – that’s a huge milestone! And congratulations on the publications!
Thanks, Andrea. I can’t really think of it as 50 years. That seems, frankly, IMPOSSIBLE.