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Contributors to The Red Issue include Jennifer Calkins, Rikki Ducornet, Noy Holland, Daniel Pafunda, Maria Tatar, Kellie Wells, and Matthew Zapruder.
Once there was a dear little girl whom everyone loved.
—Little Red Cap
Note from Managing Editor
Like all fairy tales, the story of Little Red gets strength from its multitudes. It is a moving hive, a traveling pack of translations and interpretations too numerous to catalogue. It manages to examine our most salient tropes in binaries, and the equators formed in this contrast are tangential contradictions: The tale is at once innocent and sexual. It mingles the vulnerable with the predatory, and overlaps captivity with freedom. It is both fable and fairy tale, and a horror story to boot: a naïve individual walking into a den of trickery. Then comes that eerie, parsed-out realization when our girl comes to terms with what the readers have known all along: things are not as they seem. What a fright, when something categorized as safe becomes compromised and inverted, when the familiar is replaced with the unknown. Capgras delusion is a rare disorder where people feel their loved ones have been replaced by imposters. But here we have a fable where such a swap has truly occurred. It is in this way that the story serves as a shield, helping us to grapple with one of life’s most unsettling truths: danger can be anywhere, even (or especially) where we least expect it. It’s very hard to accept that we can never have absolute security. Luckily there is Little Red, a tale that provides a stress-saver act of metonymy: instead of having to think about how harm might find us anywhere, we can simply know that grandmothers are occasionally replaced by wolves and leave it at that. In this issue, we add new footprints to the path through the woods. Some of these pieces retell the tale; others explore its place in our minds and our culture. Go my dears, and see how your grandmother is doing. I hear she has been very ill.
—Alissa Nutting
Managing Editor
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