by Michelle Tocher | Jun 15, 2015
The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen is an incredibly compelling story but a very hard one to tell. A buttoned-down, rule-bound community condemns the girl who wears the red shoes, and she doesn’t survive their judgment. Hard-heartedness triumphs here, it...
by Michelle Tocher | Jun 13, 2015
I was summoned to the assembly of fairies by Madame Selnozoura, who is a very old and distinguished fairy. I was told by her messenger that two young people drank the magic water and that Madame Selnozoura had discovered my secret. The messenger gave me a magic ring...
by Michelle Tocher | May 31, 2015
Old Selnozoura’s Speech I am afraid I am getting too frail for big speeches, for I am not well, my dears, not well at all. At any rate, I will do my best to tell you how we dealt with the matter of Dindonette’s mess. We knew nothing about what had happened until a...
by Michelle Tocher | May 9, 2015
Lately I’ve been attracted to the characters in fairy tales who screw up in spectacular ways – especially the ones we don’t expect to screw up – like fairies, for example. You would think that the entities who are put in charge of human fate would be wiser...
