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Feraltales
a collection of fabulist short stories
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Feraltales - a collection of fabulist short stories
Five short stories that reimagine the European fairytale through the female perspective with an emphasis on rewilding. Featuring retellings of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” “The Man With No Heart” and allusions to other popular tales.
”[Johnson’s] prose evokes the timeless rhythms of folklore and the stories work even without familiarity with their referents. Balancing the timeless and the contemporary, Johnson’s latest is sure to win fans” - Publisher’s Weekly.
The Girl Who - a novel in stories
This fabulist novel follows a nameless girl throughout a series of reincarnations as she searches for love, intimacy, and belonging. Borrowing themes and motifs from fairy tales such as “The Green Ribbon” and “The Twelve Dancing Princess” and mixing them together with feminist criticism, the Girl Who explores what female-identifying individuals lose in the search for romantic love.
“The rich imagery of theses stories is sublime and seamlessly combines the beautiful and the horrifying”
-Jessica Alexander, author of Dear Enemy
I’ll Tell You a Love Story — short stories
Satan's youngest daughter works at a call center. The Twelve Dancing Princesses lure men into an underground nightclub. A dancing bear falls in love and into addiction. The Queen of All Magic throws a party on the bayou to celebrate the death of her soulmate. I'll Tell You a Love Story does exactly as its title promises; tells love stories. Thes magical-realist/fabulist stories blend the ordinary with the mythic, mixes the everyday with fables, and shifts between hope and heartache.
Horror isn’t often this intelligent. Faitytales aren’t usually this smart.”
-Tim Jeffreys, author of You Will Never Lose Me
Revisionist History - poetry
This poetry chapbook explores family trauma, and growing up in the rustbelt. Explore snippets of loss, longing, and the cracks of long abandoned places.