Alison McBain
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Alison McBain writes fiction & poetry, edits & reviews books, and pens a webcomic called “Toddler Times.” In her free time, she drinks gallons of coffee & pretends to be a pool shark at her local pub. More: http://www.alisonmcbain.com/
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The Moral of Fairy Tales
When I was the same age as the heroine, I had no questions about an incontrovertible fact: bad guys are always old. But time waved its magic wand, and the images I saw before me inverted like film negatives. Now, the villain appears in the mirror I look into every day.
By Alison McBain3 years ago in Fiction
A Delightful Delay
Angie sprinted through the shimmering door. Glittering fairies descended upon her when she crossed into their world and they led her, laughing, into a merry dance. With time frozen in the real world, eons stretched out before them in this magical realm. Many songs later, Angie's consorts returned the exhausted mortal to her own time and place.
By Alison McBain3 years ago in Fiction
Trying to Rebuild
If walls as old as this could talk, they might speak in slightly confused ancient Egyptian or perhaps sneeze at the dusty palm fronds that beckoned outside the entrance to the temple. That is, if they hadn't spent the last fifty years being tramped through by American visitors who flashed pictures on their cameras - and later iPhones. Slow to learn, the walls were used to being admired or ignored, and shivered as they were scratched upon with small metal picks by unsupervised children hieroglyphing their initials into insults or hearts in the odd and shadowed corners: AL + BJ. Haley is a b****.
By Alison McBain3 years ago in Fiction
