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Essay | Published with the Kolob Canyon Review | Apr. 2025 Editor's Choice for CNF 2025 Once upon a time, there was a woman in love. This woman has been an old friend of mine for years now, so don’t judge her for her actions. Love incites many fairy tales. My dear friend sounds boring, I know, but I promise you she’s different because— Once upon a time, there was a married woman named Virginia, and she was in love with a girl . That’s like something right out of the movies,

Short Fiction | Published with Levitate Magazine Issue 9 | May 2025 You look good, Raina. Even despite… everything. I mean, I guess I should have known that this would happen eventually. You always said you felt trapped in the wrong body. Mom blamed our first grade teacher Mrs. Crane. She said the fairy tales Crane read us were stuffing our heads with cotton. But you know Mrs. Crane. She didn’t show us Grimm Brother picture books or Disney movies. We got to hear the real fair