author: flamebyrd (flamebyrd)
email: flamebyrd [at] gmail.com

( Long ago, in a time before memory reaches, all history was stories and all stories were history. )

author: a. h. m. (tumblewhim)
email: tumumbling [at] hotmail.com

( The old crone was unforgiving when he returned to the little clearing with nothing but fruit in his arms. )

author: suki langdon (not_cynical)
email: arachnofobia [at] hotmail.com

( Once upon a time there was a beautiful sorceress who lived in a spiralling tower near a town. )

author: tokyofish (tokyofish)
email: tokyofish [at] gmail.com

( Everybody thinks they know my story. )

author: e

artist: jackie (vivaldi)
email: macaulay.station [at] gmail.com

It is at any rate essential to a genuine fairy-story, as distinct from the employment of this form for lesser or debased purposes, that it should be presented as "true."

- "On Fairy-Stories," J.R.R. Tolkien

( Beauty is mapped in Europe's finest, her closets stuffed with Prada, Versace and Ferragamo. )

author: roselia grimm
email: a.grimm.rose [at] gmail.com

( There is a girl spinning in the marketplace. )

author: lynn (readerofasaph)

( The mermaid was four generations removed from the sea. )

author: beth winter (bwinter)
email: bwinter [at] extenuation.net

( It was eight years after the Great Change. )

author/artist: tammy lee (tammylee)
email: tammalee [at] laleeloo.com

( Once upon a time when all things made were made by hand and machines were toys for nobility, there lived a cobbler who crafted dancing slippers which were prized more than diamonds. )

author: thornsmoke (thornsmoke)
email: lasyungwen [at] gmail.com

( And once upon a time, there was a story. )