Black Heart, Ivory Bones by Ellen Datlow

Author:Ellen Datlow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497668577
Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

“The Red Boots” is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Red Shoes.” Andersen’s fairy tales often end cruelly and unhappily. Neither the little match girl nor the little mermaid live happily ever after in the originals. And so it is for the poor orphan, cursed by a mysterious old soldier to dance in her beautiful red shoes until she begs to have her feet chopped off.

Although Cutter’s version isn’t quite as brutal as the original, both demonstrate the sin of pride.

Rosie’s Dance

EMMA HARDESTY

Emma Hardesty lives in the American Southwest and does quite a number of satisfying things, of which writing is second to gardening. She was surprised to learn only a few years ago that lots of other writers have long reworked and newly phrased all the classic fairy tales, because she’s been writing such stories since she was a kid. This is her first published work of fiction.

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