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Heading into Halloween 2019

October 3, 2019 | fairy tales, News | Comments Off

If it’s the second year you do it, it’s totally a tradition, right?

So, as I did last year, here are links to all my spooky stories that you can read online for free. They’re not all nice, so be
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Sarah Read: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard

January 28, 2019 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

Sarah Read is a dark fiction writer in the frozen north of Wisconsin. Her short stories can be found in Gamut, Black Static, and other places, and in various anthologies including Suspended in Dusk, BEHOLD! Oddities Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and The Best Horror of
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New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing

March 25, 2011 | fairy tales, On Writing: General | 2 Comments

Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl

(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the
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Smashwordery

November 26, 2010 | fairy tales, News, On Publishing, On Writing: Short Stories | 2 Comments

Okay, so my first experiment in digital publishing is up at Smashwords.

T’is Black-Winged Angels, the short story collection of reloaded fairytales I wrote for my MA. We’ll see how this goes – i.e. how well I’ve managed to follow the technical’ish requirements (thanks to Alan Baxter for tips!) – and then Sourdough & Other Stories will be next.

My Significant Other did the
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