Volume 6, Issue 1 (2010) The Red Issue

Editor's Note (an excerpt)

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 out 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 naive 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.