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		<title>Good-bye Tulip and Jones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to a hard decision. I have to cut a subplot to make the novel work better, so it&#8217;s good-bye to Tulip and Jones, for now. I&#8217;ll be revising the scenes so that Maven will act them out, and Jones will have to fall through the Veil at another time, unless I decide to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashleigh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ashleigh moped in her room in the third tallest tower of her sister's castle. "Unfortunately," said Maven, appearing with a minimum of flash and sparkle, "it is impossible to grant a wish for the past. You have to decide what you want in the future. Looks like you're doing all right to me."]]></description>
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		<title>After Midnight &#8211; Early Scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That&#8217;s what happens when you don&#8217;t think about one wish, but just wave your wand over everything,&#8221; Fiona said, with a smirk. &#8220;What are you going to do about it, since you now know how powerful you are, and you&#8217;ve learned that no one else can undo your hasty and ill-formed magic?&#8221; Fiona stood there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jones and Petunias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jones landed on his belly in a flower bed—petunias from the smell of it—never a good sign. But the Ions were gone, his brain sparkles mere ash which filled his mouth. He made a few tentative moves to see if anything was broken, other than the flower stalks beneath him.  It was dark, always good, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Vampires Wish For?</title>
		<description><![CDATA["So what can you do for me, fairy godmother? You can't kill me, you can't make me fall in love, and I can see through any glamour you can throw over me." His eyes gave her the piercing look that was usually followed by his piercing kiss. ]]></description>
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		<title>Lurleen in the Cafe O&#8217;Lay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just give the word." Maven drained the mug. "If that's what you want." Her voice had an edge of warning, just a note of 'be careful what you ask for.' Maven handed her the mug, nodding at it significantly. "Take your time. There ain't no beer in Faery."]]></description>
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		<title>Fairy Tales for Retelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are there any tales other than Cinderella that have not been sufficiently mined, smelted, recast, spun and hammered? ]]></description>
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		<title>Three Wish Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first rule of granting wishes is &#8220;Be careful what you wish for&#8211;you might get it.&#8221; Three themes exist in the make-a-wish stories: the one wish that sets the machinery of the universe in motion the unthinking wish that must be corrected by the last wish the no-matter-what-you-wish, it will turn out badly&#8211;the monkey&#8217;s paw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frog Princesses and Water Nixies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[However, once a reader gets past the fairy tales that have been cleaned up to be moral tales for children, one finds a tremendous body of material on various kinds of water beings. One of these is the water nixie--a.k.a.  knucker, neck, sprite, sylph, siren, Lorelei, mermaid, melusine, or water-man.]]></description>
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		<title>Tales of the Motherless Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I started doing research for Maven, most of the fairy tales I knew involved girls who were set upon by their stepmothers, girls who had no mothers present. Even Disney&#8217;s Sleeping Beauty is separated from her mother, to be raised by three silly fairies. Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty, Rapunzel, and even Little Red Riding [...]]]></description>
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