Fairy tales are “… a counter-history, a ceaselessly whispered assertion of truths that cannot be reached by the straight and narrow road of realism. You can travel that road as long as you like, and certainly the sights to be seen along it are splendid. But it cannot take you where it does not go.”
~ Laura Miller, “Jean Thompson’s ‘The Witch: And Other Tales Re-told’ “, New York Times Book Review, October 24, 2014
Writes all the things. Most of the things never write back.