Dec 9, 2023
"You know where you are with evil in those stories. It’s simple.
A witchy cackle, a strange
appearance, a stooping walk. It makes it really easy. The baddies
act like baddies, and they
look like baddies.
Except.. Nana has a stooping walk and laughs like a toilet
unblocking... Whose warnings do we carry from the old...
Dec 7, 2023
The Imagined story of Anne Webber, the last woman on the island of Samson, part of the Isles of Scilly archipelago.
"In my opinion, Samson got all the beauty. She’s got a tucked in waist right in the middle, as if she breathed in to wear her corset of granite.
We don’t hold with corsets ‘ere of course, but...
Dec 7, 2023
"I will come for you, every one of you. I will tip toe into your homes in the dead of night and suck your life force from your mouths ...
I will make sick your wives and steal your children, and with my master I will rip out your hearts and feast upon them, and as I am saved from these flames you will all burn in hell...
Dec 7, 2023
"And so my precious child, as you prepare to spread your wings
and fly,
Who am I?
When I split open and shed my Selkie skin of Motherhood,
What lies beneath?
This pelt so soft and now threadbare, warm, and full of
comfort.
Now peppered with silver threads, worn thin through hugs and
healing kisses.
What lies...
Dec 7, 2023
"We lovers of folktales know that many a story begins by declaring ‘there once was a woman.’ And we know that the woman will be either a maiden in search of love, a mother protecting her clan, or a crone bent on revenge. And you will also expect her tale to be set in time immemorial, in a magical era rife with...