Tag Archives: fairy tales

Short Stories Online

Posted on August 8, 2018 by K.V. Johansen

This month I began experimenting with a new way of republishing short fiction. I have the first story from The Serpent Bride, originally published by Thistledown back in 1998, up at Curious Fictions; you can support me by visiting my … Continue reading →

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Tallying the Books 2: The Serpent Bride

Posted on September 2, 2017 by K.V. Johansen

The Serpent Bride, my second published book, was a collection of ten short stories that were literary fairy tales, retellings of ballads from Medieval Denmark, was published in 1998 from Thistledown Press. (For non-Canadians, that’s a venerable small literary press … Continue reading →

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Dispatches from the Desk # 12: Little girls — brandish your wooden swords and burn your plastic tiaras!

Posted on March 9, 2012 by K.V. Johansen

International Women’s Day has come and gone for this year, and I’ve been thinking about princesses. Here we are, all post-feminist doin’ it for ourselves, and all the little girls want to be princesses. In my day it was cowboys. … Continue reading →

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