by Jeff Fleischer
My short story “The Tin Platoon” appears in the new edition of Curating Alexandria, which focuses on fairy tales. Even cooler, they asked me to write the introduction to the collection. This book, titled Once Upon a Time in Alexandria, is the third produced in the series, the second to feature me, and available as both a print book and an e-book.
An excerpt:
Once upon a time, people began telling a new kind of story.
They already had legends and myths — tales that the storyteller presented as real events, and that audiences (at least initially) believed. Incredible things routinely happened in those stories, but they were presented as miracles, magic, or the work of supernatural powers who the listeners would be wise to take seriously.