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Tam Lin

A Scottish Tale of Love, Redemption and Dark Magic
Retold by Yvonne Owens | Illustrated by Helena Domenic

Noble Ladies, most excellent Gentlemen, hear now the tale of Tam Lin, a man so beloved of the Fairy Queen in the Otherworld that she would not let him go, but kept him ever beside her in the deep and hollow hills and would let him love no other.

Riders in the Sky

Written by Christopher Muscato | Illustrated by Joel Bisaillon

Wayne glanced back at the sirens, then leapt onto the rotorcycle.

“No, Riders aren’t…you’re not…”

In the distance, sirens blared. Green lights pierced the sky. The Rider pulled on his goggles, the lenses a hellish red. He grinned and held out his hand.

“Yippie-i-ay, partner.”

Of Earth

Written by Sarah Darbee | Illustrated by Paul Lee

Time to hustle then. Jack jogged down the gangplank, slammed his fist into the button that would shut the door behind him, and then jogged across the wide circle of flattened grass that the rocket had left on landing. A tall grass filled the fields around him, with the occasionally scraggly tree trying to make its way up towards the sun, all of it a wide-open space under a cloudy blue sky. Jack took a deep breath of the thick air, probably not the healthiest but still far heartier than Mars and then threw himself down in the grass to wait for the new arrivals.

He didn’t have to wait long.

Blanket Girls

Written by Priya Sridhar | Illustrated by Thana Meejinda

It wasn’t until they could speak that they perceived the blankets as belonging to them. At Grandma Odelia’s next Christmas party, when the girls were four, Aunt Nikola sought them out. She was wearing jeans embroidered with rust-red tulips.

Old Willum’s Final Tale

Written by Eleanor Cooke | Illustrated by Seren Derryth

Even as his insides were twisted up with nerves, the storyteller in Willum noted that the atmosphere was perfect. The screaming ghosts scoring bright lines across the sky, the giant fire casting flickering shadows across the worried faces of the villagers. Any other night he’d have been telling them about the abandoned cities in the northern forests where the Siyala people once lived, or about the rebellion he’d joined in Synti, where they’d won against a terrible ruler despite being outnumbered one to one hundred. But tonight was different.

insightful / incite-full by Irisanya Moon

Bird of the Blizzard by Chinmay Khare

Another Time, Another Place by Marge Simon

The Northern Lights are Music by Amelia Gorman