I’ve loved fairy tales all my life. I used to be one-sided in my judgments, rooting for the protagonist while celebrating the villain’s inevitable destruction because, in fairy tales, the good guys always win — or do they? I made no room for empathy, just: “Off with their heads!” As if everything is black and …
BITTER WOMEN ARE MADE OF SOLD DREAMS AND UNANSWERED PRAYERS NIGHTMARES AND SLEEP PARALYSIS, AN INCUBUS SITTING ON THEIR CHEST DEPRIVATION, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, WEIGHT GAIN, AND STARVATION SOUR GRAPES AND DEAD LEAVES, WILTED ROSES AND ROTTED FRUIT GNATS CORKED WINE, FREEZER BURNT WEDDING CAKE TOPPERS UNWORN LINGERIE WRAPPED IN TISSUE PAPER FLICKERING FLOURESCENT LIGHTING OF …
This op-ed was originally published for Page Turner Magazine in May 2026 It’s 2024, gated communities are under siege, armed guards patrol the high-walled gates keeping out the poor, foreign, sick, and starving. The wealth inequality has widened along with climate-fueled fires, water is scarce, the police are privatized and rarely come unless you are …