“Something cracked apart in me at that
Devan Barlow, “Adventures”
like a paltry twig atop a fire
I left the cottage,
then the village,
stepping beyond the extent
of the world I knew”
Devan Barlow is the author of the Curses & Curtains series of fairy tales-meet-musicals fantasy novels, and the collection Foolish Hopes and Spilled Entrails: Retellings. Find her short fiction and poetry in various anthologies and magazines. She reads voraciously, and is usually hanging out with her dog. devanbarlow.com, Bluesky @devanbarlow.bsky.social.
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