Catskin  by Kelly Link   (2012) Tuesday’s Tale of Terror   January 31, 2017 When we think of witches, we don’t think of soft round women, scented and powdered, wearing pink tufted slippers, and living in cute houses. They are more like women with twisted hearts that beat fierce blood into powerful spells over their victims. Kelly Link writes in odd directions and this story, Catskin,  is a world where you can totally lose yourself. Are you up for a horrific fairy tale? Here’s a warning: Never poison a witch. The witch, up in her bedroom, was dying. Now, since witches cannot have children in the usual way—their wombs are full of straw or bricks or stones, and when they give birth, they give birth to rabbits, kittens, tadpoles, houses, silk dresses, and yet even witches must have heirs, even witches wish to be mothers—the witch had acquired her children by other means: She had stolen or bought them. Do you like creepy cats? When I think of old cats, I conjure up lazy ones on a quilted bedspread, eyes slit closed and their soft minds dreaming in the shadows—a little bit like Poe said in The Raven: “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

Cats trotted and slunk and leapt and crouched. Their movements were catlike, or perhaps clockwork. Their tails twitched like hairy pendulums. They paid no attention to the witch’s children. Witches and cats … a winning combination for a short story. Ancient Proverb: You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.” Kelly Link’s  debut collection, Stranger Things Happen, was a Firecracker nominee, a Village Voice Favorite Book and a Salon Book of the Year — Salon called the collection “…an alchemical mixture of Borges, Raymond Chandler, and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” curtains bulimbaStories from the collection have won the Nebula, the James Tiptree Jr., and the World Fantasy Awards. tartan thermal curtainsHer second collection, Magic for Beginners, was chosen as one of the best books of the decade by Salon and The Onion.  curtains helston

Kelly has taught at Smith College, Columbia University, UMass Amherst, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Clarion, Clarion West, and Clarion South in Brisbane, Australia, and the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University. Read more of Kelly Link’s work like Catskin in her Magic for Beginners. Check out BuzzFeed’s Cat Stories. Don’t forget to view the INDEX above of more free Tales of Terror. cost plus suzani curtainsThis is a compendium of nearly 200 short stories by over 100 master storytellers of mystery,  supernatural, ghost stories, and horror. outhouse shower curtain ringsJoin me in reading one short story every other week!shower curtains 200cm long Other Reading Web Sites to Visitready made curtains 150cm drop

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Innovative poetry events in London for next four weeks: .uk/readings.html for fuller information & longer timespan Jamie Crewe: Female Executioner Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street SE11 5RH Poetry Workshops for Women of Colour: led by Rachel Long Level 5 Function Room, Green side, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX £8 perwprkshop, limited concessions 50%, book online Integration Alone is Not Enough: Selected Works of British Concrete Poetry 1960–1980: including Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Kenelm Cox, Tom Edmonds, John Furnival, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Peter Mayer, Charles Verey and Edward Wright; curated by Andrew Hunt Richard Saltoun Gallery, 111 Great Titchfield Street W1W 6RY Michael Kindellan introduces Canto XCIX London Cantos Reading Group, Room 246, Senate House, Malet Street WC1E 7HU all welcome, hand-outs and wine will be provided Praxis 5: lo wie & Manfred Werder, + A.Typist (Ryu Hankil, lo wie, Manfred Werder)

Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, 14 Wharf Road N1 7RW The Last London: Ian Sinclair London Review of Books Winter Lectures in BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG £5/£3, online, at BM ticket desk in Great Court or phone 020 7323 8181 ~ I hear thrumming ~: Tarot Reading & Sigil Making Workshop with The Magic Men Anu Agency at Diaspore, corner of Keeton's Road & Collett Road, Bermondsey SE16 2BT £5.90: please book through Eventbrite The Toll by Luke Wright (book launch) Penned in the Margins at The Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street N1 6EU RSVP by 5 Feb to james@pennedinthemargins.co.uk ~ I hear thrumming ~: The Informal Library — hangout day with books and texts connected to the theme of communication and interaction with plants; bring a text to share. A scanner will be provided to archive content and share (fully accredited) on the website.

Aromatherapy will be part of this experience Pattern Books : Tutor: Matthew Welton The Poetry School, 79–83 Lambeth Walk SE11 6DX Writers Forum Workshop – New Series The Barley Mow, 127 Curtain Road, Shoreditch EC2A 3BX Peter Robinson and Elaine Randell Shearsman Reading Series at Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH Amy Evans + Jeff Hilson + tba Capital Letters in the Chapel at St Margaret's House, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green E29PL 'Asylum': A poetic Installation: collaboration between Márton Koppány and Albert Pellicer Iklectik Art Lab, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Waterloo SE1 7LG Gizem Okulu, Verity Spott, Rosa Van Hensbergen and David Grundy, book table available 207 New Cross Road, London, SE14 5DJ Inventing Rauschenberg: The Artist as Engineer : explore the pioneering art of Robert Rauschenberg with SJ Fowler Tate Modern, Bankside SE1 9TG; November 9 at Tate Britain, Millbank SW1P 4RG

£130, concessions available, book online Nick Flynn, Vahni Capildeo & Rachael Allen The Poetry Society and Faber & Faber at Bloomsbury House, 74–77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA £10 from Faber & Faber Poetry Reading in solidarity with One Day Without Us: Poetry reading anti-Brexit anti-racism and in solidarity! — Alireza Abiz, Caroline Bergvall, Andrea Brady, Che, Iris Colomb, Kate Crowcroft, Anastasia Freygang, Justin Katko, Ágnes Lehóczky, Luna Montenegro, Ghazal Mosadeq, Gizem Okulu, Albert Pellicer, Jèssica Pujol, Ana Sefer, Sophie Seita, Irene Solè, Virna Teixeira, Sara Torres, Juha Virtanen, Enrique Zattara for One Day Without Us at Iklectik Art Lab, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Waterloo SE1 7LG Ed Luker: Secrecy in contemporary poetry Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar, Senate House, South Block, Malet Street WC1E 7HU Museum of Futures: Visual Poetry Exhibition: featuring works by Imogen Abed, Ed Arantus, Tim Atkins, Stephen Barber, Adam Baron, Molly Bergin, Susie Campbell, Patrick Cosgrove, Sarah Dawson, Thomas Duggan, SJ Fowler, Lucy Furlong, Penny Goring, Mark Harris, Megan Haycock, Ann Hulland, Imo Jeffes, Dean Kenning, Yessica Klein, Olga Kolesnikova, Julia Lewis, Dacy Lim, Hannah Lowe, Cleary Mallard, Raif Mansell, Alison Miller

, Matthew Navey, Ronan O'Brien, Albert Pellicer, Zoe Radford, David Russomano, Virna Teixeira, Simon Tyrrell with more tba curated by SJ Fowler at The Museum of Futures, 117 Brighton Rd, Surbiton KT6 5NJ Blake and the Apocalypse: cross-arts collaboration to reveal the magic of William Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas, devised by Nick Flynn, Noveller and Gabriel Martinez Poet and the City, in Hall 2, Kings Place, 90 York Way, Kings Cross N1 9AG Museum of Futures: Visual Poetry Exhibition: Opening Event — The Futures Camarade: Tim Atkins & Zakia Carpenter Hall; Lucy Furlong & Susie Campbell; Julia Lewis & Olga Kolesnikova; Albert Pellicer & Virna Teixeira; Sarah Dawson & Megan Haycock; Molly Bergin & Eley Williams; Matt Navey & Raif Mansell; plus Dacy Lim, Yessica Klein and Imogen Abed Museum of Futures: Visual Poetry Exhibition: works by mogen Abed, Ed Arantus, Tim Atkins, Stephen Barber, Adam Baron, Molly Bergin, Susie Campbell, Patrick Cosgrove, Sarah Dawson, Thomas Duggan, SJ Fowler, Lucy Furlong, Penny Goring, Mark Harris, Megan Haycock, Ann Hulland, Imo Jeffes, Dean Kenning, Yessica Klein, Olga Kolesnikova, Julia Lewis, Dacy Lim, Hannah Lowe, Cleary Mallard, Raif Mansell, Alison Miller, Matthew Navey

, Ronan O'Brien, Albert Pellicer, Zoe Radford, David Russomano, Virna Teixeira, Simon Tyrrell with more tba curated by SJ Fowler with assistant curators Megan Haycock, Molly Bergin, Olga Kolesnikova, Dacy Lim and Matt Navey, at The Museum of Futures, 117 Brighton Rd, Surbiton KT6 5NJ Ghazal Mosadeq : Camilla Nelson : Simon Smith Xing the Line at Iklectik Art Lab, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Waterloo SE1 7LG Where Art Meets Literature: Brian Easton, Ben Eastham, Tom McCarthy, Deborah Levy, Adam Thirlwell, Holly Pester & Nisha Ramayya (which 2 present "Art Hearts Poetry" at 5.15, followed by readings and performances presented by Ben Eastham at 6.30 Frieze Academy at DRAF Studio, DRAF, Symes Mews (off Camden High Street, on left up from Mornington Crescent) NW1 7JEreading only: £20 (including drinks); University Camarade II: students from the Creative Writing departments of Kingston University, Oxford Brookes, York St John, Kent, Essex, York and Royal Holloway: Mischa Foster Poole & Zakia Carpenter-Hall, Dacy Lim & Emilie Dufresne, Natalie Stevens & Safiya Allaf, Gemma Jackson & James Carr, Astra Papachristodoulou & Phoebe Power, Imogen Abed & Emma Kittle Pey, Olga Kolesnikova & Rosie Driffill, Francesco Aresco & Andrew Reiss, Niamh Meehan & Jennifer Wong

, Simon Everett & Jack Richardson, Abigail J. Villarroel & Carole Webster, Emma Bates Garcia & Matt Navey curated by SJ Fowler with Kim Campanello, JT Welsch, Dorothy Lehane, Robert Hampson, Prudence Chamberlain, Philip Terry and Niall Munro at Venue 2, Rich Mix, 35–47 Bethnal Green Road E1 6LA Museum of Futures: Visual Poetry Exhibition: Seething Writers Go Totally Ekphrastic — workshop with Lucy Furlong of Seething Writers at The Museum of Futures, 117 Brighton Rd, Surbiton KT6 5NJ Genna Moss introduces Canto LXXV London Cantos Reading Group, Room 234, Senate House, Malet Street WC1E 7HU all welcome, hand-outs and wine provided Nisha Ramayya, Peter Hughes, Gareth Prior Oystercatcher Press at Poetry Library, Level 5, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX .uk to reserve your place Spanish Experimental Poetry Night: Laia López Manrique, Lola Nieto, Sara Torres Alba Londres at Library, 112 St Martin's Lane WC2 4BG