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436-Korean folklore: Feet First
🪱Mr. Worm is getting married! That (not creepy) stranger is looking in your windows! Shin is driving tired! Five interconnected stories from Korean folklore about letting people know the real you. And [...]
435-Medieval Knights: Fifty Shades of Graelent
⚔️Sir Graelent is too beautiful for his scruples At least that's what the queen thinks. Good thing she doesn't have the power to wreck his whole life if he doesn't love her. [...]
434-Norse Mythology: The Old Man and the Stick
🐐 Who knew packing so many epic Norse heroes into a single house could have such disastrous consequences? Not Odin, that's for sure. There's trouble brewing in Valhalla, and there's only one [...]
433-Spanish folklore: Doña of the Dead
⛰️When the unthinkable happens, Doña must become something she doesn't even recognize to bring justice But, once she travels so far from herself, can she find her way home? This is the [...]
432-Japanese folklore: Sword it Out
🍜Samurai Pirates, Stabby Sumo Wrestlers, and Punchable Oni Are the consequences of Jiuyemon's actions. We all make mistakes. Too many of the samurai Jiuyemon's mistakes involved killing people with a sword while [...]
431-Turkish folklore: These Dreams
✨Cobbler Ahmet just wants to fix shoes✨ But his wife wants those sweet, sweet bath reservations, so it looks like he's going to go be the Chief Astrologer to the Sultan. The [...]
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Carissa Weiser
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Carissa is a former audiology professor with a background in psychoacoustics, linguistics, and creative writing. She loves her family, photography, tennis season, and riding horses.
Jason Weiser
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Jason is a former medical researcher with a background in English literature and narrative theory. He's a big fan of his wife and child, hiking, Batman, and cake (the dessert, but the band's ok, too).
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