Contributors BEST OF ENCHANTED CONVERSATION: THE RESCUE - 51 Amanda Kespohl is a fantasy writer and attorney from Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Her short stories have been featured in anthologies such as Hear Me Roar (Poise and Pen Publishing 2020) and The Death of All Things (Zombies Need Brains, LLC 2017). She currently resides in Tallahassee with her beagle, Bailey. Check out her website at https://amandakespohl.wordpress.com/. Image: Picryl, Amanda Bergloff
WHAT THE PRINCESS WISHES - 53 Peyton Dupree spent a good deal of his young life as a professional jazz musician in African nightclubs. One evening a lightning bird gave him three words in exchange for a melody. He hasn’t stopped writing since. Image: Walter Crane
CLASSICS FROM AROUND THE WORLD: HY-BRASAIL THE ISLE OF THE BLEST - 57 An Irish fairy tale poem (1803) by Gerald Griffin. Image: Pixabay
BEST OF ENCHANTED CONVERSATION: PEARL DIVER - 59 J.S.Rogers has been writing since she could get her hands on a pencil and paper. These days, she writes as a freelancer for her day job and pens fiction by night. Her fiction has previously appeared in Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology. Image: Public Domain Review
ARTICLE: I MARRIED A MERMAID - 82 Paul Himmelein is co-author of Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge, which the The New York Times called an “exultation of a state of mind.” He’s received a Hawthornden Fellowship for fiction and is completing his first novel. He is also cofounder of Ivory Tower Studios cards and stationery. Images: "The Fair Melusine" painted by Julius Hübner, 1844 - Family tree of the House of Lusignan carried by the fairy Melusine, illustration from the Roman de Melusine, published in Augsburg, Germany, 1480 - Medieval coat-of-arms with Melusine supporters from St. Martin's Church in Brux, France, not far from Lusignan - Selkie statue in Mikladalur from Wikimedia Commons
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