A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - June 2018 Issue - Table of Contents

Enchanted Conversation Magazine
presents
our June 2018 Summer Issue:
A Midsummer
Night's Dream

In this issue, EC features stories that use the magic of summer and summer nights as the backdrop to the nine tales below. Here, you'll find some traditional fairy tales and re-tellings of folktales and myths, along with some modern stories that evoke the feeling of warm days under the sun and cool nights under the stars.

Where does a Sound Seeker find words thought lost forever?
Why should one never eat Ladybug cakes, even if they're dripping in delectable icing?
How can the Monarch of the Rains transform himself into something a princess can love?
When a goddess decides to go home, who can stop her?
And how can catching a golden bird be the key to a kingdom?
...plus more stories to enjoy on an afternoon when the sky is an endless blue and summer stretches beyond the horizon.

The EC Team would also like to thank everyone who stops by and reads Enchanted Conversation Magazine. We hope you enjoy this issue and share your thoughts in the comments sections of the various stories. We’d love to hear from you!

- Amanda, Kiyomi, William, Angelika, and Craig

I will not follow the whims of some mortal.

I will not be caught...

THE GOLDEN BIRD

Maya Levine

The best time for catching fairies is at dawn...

THE OFFENSE

OF SHADOWS

Alexander Zalben

You will not keep me from my home, 

my throne, or my husband...

TAKING LEAVE

Connor Sassmannshausen

He began to untwist the sound,

gently so its strands wouldn't break...

THE SOUND SEEKER

Heather Newton

She sang a song of love so sweet,

the butterflies stopped to listen...

THE BUTTERFLY AND

THE PRINCESS:

An Indonesian Folktale

Amanda Bergloff

Never eat a ladybug cake...

LADYBUG CAKE

Loie Dunn

Perhaps the roar of the waves 

would make her feel close to him...

SELKIE

Phoebe Cramer

The girl never treated him like a monster...

THE LAST STAR

Juliana Amir

Father had a beautiful cage built for me, 

bronzed like my skin...

SUN KISSED

Katherine Herron

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ENCHANTED CONVERSATION MAGAZINE 

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Amanda Bergloff   CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Kiyomi Appleton Gaines - William Gilmer - A.M. Offenwanger  VISUAL ARTS EDITOR Craig Gassen  COVER LAYOUTS Amanda Bergloff