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91. Thimberiggery and Fledgelings by Steve Berman, from The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling.  There's a melancholy sweetness to this story that really moved me.  I can't say I'm particularly familiar with the ballet Swan Lake (as in, I know the basic idea but don't know the particulars of the ( Read more... )

The February - May issue of The Strand magazine (www.strandmag.com) boasts  "new" stories by Mark Twain and PG Wodehouse (as in previously unpublished, not ghost-written (or should that be written by ghost), as well as a great interview with Christopher Plummer.

55. "The Undertaker's Tale" by Mark Twain.  It's been a while since I've read Twain, ( Read more... )