Spellbound Spring 2013: Changelings and Doppelgängers

Everyone has a double, or so the story goes: a twin or other who resembles a person almost perfectly. Maybe it’s a changeling, left behind by the fairies when they stole a human child. Or maybe it’s a doppelgänger, a ghostly creature who wants to steal another’s life.

But maybe having an otherworldly twin doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Wouldn’t it be fun to have someone to share in adventures? Someone to take your place when it’s test time? What if you were the other, a replacement for a human child? What would that be like?

We have stories and poems about mirror twins, boarding schools, changelings, undersea palaces, fairy folk and more! And as with the previous issue, this one is packed with beautiful illustrations and includes a Recommended Reading List!

Table of Contents:

Poetry

Changelings by B.F.Fernandez
Don’t Call Me a Fairy by B.J. Lee
The Changeling Remembers by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
The Boarding School by Jacqueline West
Uncanny by Jillian Schmidt

Fiction

Be Careful What You Fish For (You Might Get It) by Pamela Love
Jeffie by Estrella Thoeni
To Touch the Tide by Brian Green
Rukiya and the Leopard by Levi Sable
Oliver’s New Name by Willow Fagan
Mirror Image by Emily Martha Sorensen

With artwork by Sean Buck, Gabriel Eggers, Ingrid Kallick, Dana Martin, Abbigail Ward, Joanne Wojtysiak and Stephen Wood.