My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
Contents Introduction
by Kate Bernheimer
Foreword
by Gregory Maguire
Russia Joy Williams,
“Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child” (source tale: “Baba Yaga”)
Jonathon Keats, “Ardour” (source tale: “Baba Yaga”)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, “I’m Here” (source tale: “Ivan Tsarevich”)
Germany Alissa Nutting, “The Brother and the Bird” (source tale: “The Juniper Tree,” Brothers Grimm)
Francine Prose, “Hansel and Gretel” (source tale: “Hansel & Gretel,” Brothers Grimm)
Kevin Brockmeier, “A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin” (source tale: “Rumpelstiltskin,” Brothers Grimm)
Neil LaBute, “With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold” (source tale: “Rumpelstiltskin,” Brothers Grimm)
Shelley Jackson, “The Swan Brothers” (source tale: “The Six Swans,” Brothers Grimm)
Joyelle McSweeney, “The Warm Mouth” (source tale: “The Bremen Town Musicians,” Brothers Grimm)
Lydia Millet, “Snow White, Rose Red” (source tale: “Snow-White and Rose-Red,” Brothers Grimm)
Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, “The Erlking” (source tale: “The Erlking,”
Johann Goethe)
Norway Brian Evenson, “Dapplegrim” (source tale: “Dapplegrim,”
Peter Christen Asbjornien and Jorgen Moe)
Denmark
Michael Cunningham, “The Wild Swans” (source tale: “The Wild Swans,” Hans Christian Andersen)
Karen Joy Fowler, “Halfway People” (source tale: “The Wild Swans,” Hans Christian Andersen)
Rikki Ducornet, “Green Air” (source tale: “The Little Match Girl,” Hans Christian Andersen)
Timothy Schaffert, “The Mermaid in the Tree” (source tale: “The Little Mermaid,” Hans Christian Andersen)
Katherine Vaz, “What the Conch Shell Sings When the Body Is Gone” (source tale: “The Little Mermaid,” Hans Christian Andersen)
Karen Brennan, “The Snow Queen” (source tale: “The Snow Queen,” Hans Christian Andersen)
Lucy Corin, “Eyes of Dogs” (source tale: “The Tinder Box,” Hans Christian Andersen)
Ilya Kaminsky, “Little Pot” (source tale: “The Teapot,” Hans Christian Andersen)
England
Michael Martone, “A Bucket of Warm Spit” (source tale: “Jack and the Beanstalk,” Joseph Jacobs)
Kelly Link, “Catskin” (source tale: “Catskin,” Joseph Jacobs)
Ireland Chris Adrian, “Teague O'Kane and the Corpse” (source tale: “Teague O’Kane and The Corpse,” William Butler Yeats)
Italy Jim Shepard, “Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay” (source tale: “Jump Into My Sack,” Italo Calvino)
Kathryn Davis, “Body-without-Soul” (source tale: “Body-without-Soul,” Italo Calvino)
Kellie Wells, “The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone” (source tale: “The Story of Grandmother”)
Sabrina Orah Mark, “My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This Is What Happened” (source tale: “The Young Slave,” Giambattista Basile)
France
Aimee Bender, “The Color Master” (source tale: “Donkeyskin,” Charles Perrault)
Marjorie Sandor, “The White Cat” (source tale: “The White Cat,” Madame d’Aulnoy)
Joyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover” (source tale: “Bluebeard,” Charles Perrault)
John Updike, “Bluebeard in Ireland” (source tale: “Bluebeard,” Charles Perrault)
Rabih Alameddine, “A Kiss to Wake the Sleeper” (source tale: “Sleeping Beauty,” Charles Perrault)
Stacey Richter, “A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility” (source tale: “Cinderella,”
Charles Perrault)
Greece Neil Gaiman, “Orange” (source tale:
The Odyssey, Homer)
Francesca Lia Block, “Psyche's Dark Night” (source tale: “Cupid and Psyche”)
Vietnam Lily Hoang, “The Story of the Mosquito” (source tale: “The Story of the Mosquito")
Japan
Naoko Awa, “First Day of Snow” (source tale: “A Kamikakushi Tale”)
Hiromi Itō, “I Am Anjuhimeko” (source tale: “Sanshō the Steward”)
Mexico
Michael Mejia, “Coyote Takes Us Home” (source tale: “Tales from Jalisco,” Mexico)
United States
Kim Addonizio, “Ever After” (source tale: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” Walt Disney)
Kate Bernheimer, “Whitework” (source tale: “The Oval Portrait,” Edgar Allan Poe)
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