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Cinderella's Revenge / Sleeping Beauty / Snow White Speaks Out, Jill Solnicki Sep 1990

Cinderella's Revenge / Sleeping Beauty / Snow White Speaks Out, Jill Solnicki

The Mythic Circle

Cinderella’s Revenge: Sisters, you shut me by the hearth, by the broom and cinders, Sleeping Beauty: Wake me wake me I have slept so long the sun rising falling leaves uncurling crumbling Snow White Speaks Out: I see everything through the glass The tree that forms a roof, a canopy over my coffin,


Taking Off, Jill Solnicki Sep 1990

Taking Off, Jill Solnicki

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The ferris wheel creaks, shudders, then lifts off


Elfin Corner Trees, Charles Rampp Sep 1990

Elfin Corner Trees, Charles Rampp

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surprized each dawn, our morning star and i as crescent moon pales


The Betrayed, Erin Lale Sep 1990

The Betrayed, Erin Lale

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The long hall is hung with festive banners. Many Khuzhar are here, celebrating with us our victory over another Soft Poofie town, and loot was piled high on the cloth-covered table along with the rib roast and steaming plates of multicolored roots.


M.I.A., Patricia Ellen Flinn Sep 1990

M.I.A., Patricia Ellen Flinn

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One morning after a long and fitful night of dream-drenched sleep, Helen Blake awoke and discovered to her astonishment that she had been transformed into a large and dazzling butterfly.


Mythic Circle #10, Lynn Maudlin, Christine Lowentrout, Tina Cooper Sep 1990

Mythic Circle #10, Lynn Maudlin, Christine Lowentrout, Tina Cooper

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Welcome to The Mythic Circle #10. We have a first in this issue: a pair of stories written by father and son. Dan Ryan, a Phoenix, Arizona, high school student, has written a re-telling of the Romeo & Juliet story entitled “The Chain." His father, Charles W. Ryan, provides us with a short story called “Janus Winked." You’ll also notice we’re running a lot of poetry in this issue, including a series of poems by Jill Solnicki that examine fairy tale heroines from an unusual angle.


Editorial, Lynn Maudlin, Christine Lowentrout, Tina Cooper Sep 1990

Editorial, Lynn Maudlin, Christine Lowentrout, Tina Cooper

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Welcome to The Mythic Circle #10. We have a first in this issue: a pair of stories written by father and son. Dan Ryan, a Phoenix, Arizona, high school student, has written a re-telling of the Romeo & Juliet story entitled “The Chain." His father, Charles W. Ryan, provides us with a short story called “Janus Winked." You’ll also notice we’re running a lot of poetry in this issue, including a series of poems by Jill Solnicki that examine fairy tale heroines from an unusual angle.


The Little Mermaid, Jill Solnicki Sep 1990

The Little Mermaid, Jill Solnicki

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I saw the belly of the boat slide by, silent and seamless as a whale.


Sea Spiders, Sue Nevill Sep 1990

Sea Spiders, Sue Nevill

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Straight from the sea they come, straight from the mouth of the great bronze god, sightless Poseidon


Lohengrin, Owen R. Neill Sep 1990

Lohengrin, Owen R. Neill

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Knight of the morning swan flowing; Light of the waters through time mists gleaming


The Vernal Queen, Colleen Anderson Sep 1990

The Vernal Queen, Colleen Anderson

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He came to me. I was still young, growing like new shoots.


Untitled / The Flutist, Rhea Rose, Jill Solnicki Sep 1990

Untitled / The Flutist, Rhea Rose, Jill Solnicki

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Untitled: Cindy lives in the emerald sea Where water babies tug her hair The Flutist: lifted the silver shaft of light to his lips then danced


Secret Of The Golden Bough, Owen R. Neill Sep 1990

Secret Of The Golden Bough, Owen R. Neill

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Thunder and lightning lie among the branches, celestial fire sent as pledge on earth


Annwyn Castle / Dragon Sol / Eye Of Miranda, Owen R. Neill, Rhea Rose Sep 1990

Annwyn Castle / Dragon Sol / Eye Of Miranda, Owen R. Neill, Rhea Rose

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Annwyn Castle: The castle turns and turns westerly, gleaming westerly, all glass and radiating rainbows. Dragon Sol: the golden blood of gods pounds in your core, searing sea of molten force Eye of Miranda: dark shepherdess of epsilon whose lightless watch and silent cyclic trek


Sunset And Dawn…, E. R. Lifeson Sep 1990

Sunset And Dawn…, E. R. Lifeson

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In Her sadness, the Mother of All wept.


Walking On Royal Carpets / Meteorite, Owen R. Neill, Jill Solnicki Sep 1990

Walking On Royal Carpets / Meteorite, Owen R. Neill, Jill Solnicki

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Walking on Royal Carpets: No sun penetrates here, Holy man-light in these halls of halls Meteorite: What news did it bring crashing out of the night


Letters Of Comment, Donna Farley, Pat Reynolds, Owen R. Neill, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Ron Blizzard, Ruth G. Mortensen, Anne Valley, C. R. Schabel, Gwenyth E. Hood, Joan Marie Verba, Erin Lale, Amos Hufflebinger Sep 1990

Letters Of Comment, Donna Farley, Pat Reynolds, Owen R. Neill, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Ron Blizzard, Ruth G. Mortensen, Anne Valley, C. R. Schabel, Gwenyth E. Hood, Joan Marie Verba, Erin Lale, Amos Hufflebinger

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Letters from readers in The Mythic Circle #10.


Merlusine, Janet P. Reedman Sep 1990

Merlusine, Janet P. Reedman

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I had been wandering for a year when I stumbled on Castra Castle. The month was Mys Rhagvyr, the Year’s Wane, and the weather had been cruel and cold, bringing snow and ice and hail


Janus Winked, Charles W. Ryan Sep 1990

Janus Winked, Charles W. Ryan

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Jeremiah Sharpe listened to the revelers in the street below, hunched himself against the nagging chill, and listened with grudging envy to the hoots and laughter muted by the dusty, rain-streaked window glass.


Giants Of Avalon, Mel Hunnicutt Sep 1990

Giants Of Avalon, Mel Hunnicutt

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King Arthur stood in the doorway of his tent, gazing nervously into the valley where the Saxon army camped.


The Chain, Dan E. Ryan Sep 1990

The Chain, Dan E. Ryan

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Ramón Montaña saw her at the Spring Dance and made his way across the crowded dance floor as the room reverberated with the tape-recorded rhythms of U2.


The Old Millstream, James Hartley Sep 1990

The Old Millstream, James Hartley

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The old mill stream. Sounds corny, doesn't it? But that’s where it was. I’ve been living in a rural area ever since my, er, "retirement," and I go on long walks a lot.


The Magus, Mel Waldman Sep 1990

The Magus, Mel Waldman

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"Get out of here, kid!" Buster said to The Magus. "You’re finished! Just another Brooklyn bum who made good and blew it."


Cairnwoman, Rosamund I. Flambard Sep 1990

Cairnwoman, Rosamund I. Flambard

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On a sun-warmed boulder far from the other children in her class, Francie Dunster sat eating her frugal lunch.


Hard Time, David Rubenstein Jan 1990

Hard Time, David Rubenstein

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Over the moonlit moor the wail of bagpipes rose and fell with the gusting of the wind; disembodied notes, measures lost in space and time, moving like the patches of mist that floated between the barren hilltops.


Editorial, Lynn Maudlin, Christine Lowentrout, Tina Cooper Jan 1990

Editorial, Lynn Maudlin, Christine Lowentrout, Tina Cooper

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This issue was intended for September, 1989, but during that month my (Lynn’s) husband was hit by a truck while we were walking back to our car after a visit to the L.A. County Fair. A hit-and-run accident has a way of re-prioritizing your life.


Sonnet For A Blessed Son Of Grace, Angelee Sailer Anderson Jan 1990

Sonnet For A Blessed Son Of Grace, Angelee Sailer Anderson

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Twice thirty suns of measured bliss, you danced within my arms to shanties of the sea.


Vulture / Pigeons, John Grey, Lynn Maudlin Jan 1990

Vulture / Pigeons, John Grey, Lynn Maudlin

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Vulture: The vulture is the most fabulous of birds. Pigeons: The pigeons turned to vultures in the night, By morning light they were eating city carrion.


Prince Of Thieves, Angelee Sailer Anderson Jan 1990

Prince Of Thieves, Angelee Sailer Anderson

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"Go not wandering, O ye maids, upon Gad’s hill, in the time of autumn when the daisies linger late. For there will you meet him, and learn to heap curses on the bitter hour in which you were born."


Anniversary, Mark Andrew Garland Jan 1990

Anniversary, Mark Andrew Garland

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I don’t know why we had to come here." "Please," Anna Cole said with a sigh. "Just humor me." She turned toward him. 'Take my hand, won’t you?"