My story “Hungry” is now live at Daily Science Fiction; you can check it out at the link. Here are my comments on the story, which are also at the bottom of the aforementioned link:
Most of my creative work centers around adapting older stories, and in this case I re-imagined the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel.” I wrote “Hungry” as part of my first semester of MFA work at Stonecoast, and my goal was to write an homage to Angela Carter. I tried to capture the sensuality of her language as well as the “folksy” voice she uses in many of the stories in The Bloody Chamber. Also, I wanted to experiment with second person, which I’d never used before and enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. Many thanks to James Patrick Kelly, who was the first to read “Hungry” and encourage me to submit it.
Also, I snuck in a bit of Baba Yaga, as I’m wont to do.
Hansel and Gretel by Arthur Rackham
