as promised…. silly, and a bit suggestive. for children over the age of 12.
Clara would like to make love to the Nutcracker. Or marry him. Whichever comes first, and whatever that means. I think that’s obvious, but what is perhaps less obvious (although Freud understood it) is that the Mouse King has his good points too. The story and the ballet are about desire — desire and fear — but mostly desire for a world beyond this one, where pleasure is not hot or even tepid, but frosty, tasty, sweet in that shivery way that the surprising-almost-frightening is. Funny how an alcoholic German would understand that: what women want, what girls dream of under the evergreens and beneath the gaze of parents whose guests sip uncomprehending punch and other sorts of unimaginatively flavored wines.
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Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a magical realist prose fiction writer, novelist, occasional essayist, and a committed, intermittent poet, as well as a passionate instructor of writing. A 7-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize she has published work in Hayden's Ferry, Pearl, CRATE, Rhapsoidia, NYCBigCityLit, the East Jasmine Review, Apeiron, Inlandia, Literary Alchemy and the Bellevue Literary Review among other places. She is the author the fabulist novel THE PUPPET TURNERS OF NARROW INTERIOR (Urban Farmhouse Press), a novelette, RESCUE PLAN (Bamboo Dart Press), a prose poem chapbook collection, SEX WITH BUILDINGS (dancing girl press), and a poetry collection, HOW FORMAL (Spout Hill Press).
Stephanie's new novel PRETEND PLUMBER is available for order from your favorite bookstore, and her poetry chapbook CITY SLICKER appeared in July 2022. Stay tuned for her novella, JOURNEY TO MERVEILLEUX CITY, coming out in 2023!
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