Appearing today in Enchanted Conversation's Rumpelstiltskin issue, is my short story! Titled "Garbage-to-Gold Spindle! On Sale Now!" the story is a humorous bout of correspondence from a mail order catalog to one Mr. Stiltskin. At only 1,800 words, it makes for a quick read.
Actually, brevity is the name of the game for this issue of Enchanted Conversations. None of the ten pieces published in the issue are longer than 2,000 words.
Reading over the issue, I have to say that I was impressed with the poetry (which I approached with unnecessary skepticism as I've often seen folk lore meet poetry in unflattering ways). Particularly impressive was the quiet and soulful poem "Other End of the Tale" by Gerri Leen. I was also impressed by another quiet and thoughtful tale, the opening short story "Little Rattle Belly" by Mae Empson. There's even a nonfiction essay on spinning and the history of linen toward the end of the issue, "Straw Into Gold," written by Elizabeth Creith. Also enchanting was the final story of the magazine, "The Duchess's Boy," by Louise Quenneville, wherein a gnomish duchess wisely states, "I know about making bargains with humans, and they are not to be trusted to keep their end of the agreement.
