I Read Stories: A Birdsong Romance by Lori Brack
Desiree, who is known as Feather by her cat, has a hole in her throat where birdsong comes out. She receives postcards from someone who may be her lover. She is offered a dress by a tinker, and another by the tinker’s sister. And because this is a fairytale, albeit one turned inside out and incomplete, it is the third dress that she wears.
Read This: For a fairytale that aggressively steals from the tropes of fairytales and makes them into lessons, in a way that seems obvious and simple when you’ve seen it done
Don’t Read This: If a girl with a birdsong hole has nothing to teach you
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