Tish Black is the author of the fairy tale-inspired short story collection Ebony, Blood, and Snow and a film programmer at IFFO where she hosts the screening series The Gaze.
I thought Unicorn Store would be a cute indie movie with one of my favourite actresses. I did not expect to be in tears for much of a movie about preparing to own a unicorn.
Read MoreI’m lying on my stomach on a floating dock on a river. It’s a cool October day but the sunshine and my fisherman’s sweater are keeping me warm.
Read MoreIn which I give a not-at-all comprehensive retrospective of my time on YouTube and muse on why I've been doing it for 15 years with no audience.
Read MoreMom’s rules made it clear; girls were for friends, boys were for… something else.
Read MoreYou know, the people who write “they lived happily ever after” aren’t the people living the ever after.
Read MoreIn which I design window stickers for my car to make it look like a hearse.
Read MoreDetermined to find freedom above ground, the goblin ran up the stairs.
Read MoreOff my bookshelf tonight is a book of art inspired by Grimms fairy tales.
Read MoreTrees move and feel very slowly; a girl lives life fast.
Read MoreI think drawing Scheherazade, the storyteller, is a pretty on-the-nose reading of what I should be doing.
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I attended the Cannes Film Festival for the first time this year. Well, “attended” online. And actually, it wasn’t the Festival, it was the market- Marché du Film.
Read MoreIn which I drive many hours, have a Beach Day™, see Niagara Falls, sweat a lot, stay in sketchy motels, Instagram detox, and go home early.
Read MoreThat was the way it always was. Black sheep on one side; white sheep on the other.
Read More*Any similarities to movies about green ogres are coincidental.
Read MoreLong ago and far away, there was a woman with an open heart.
Read MoreThe real question is; if something fell out of your mouth when you spoke, what would you want to come out?
Read MoreThere once lived a family on a small island in the middle of the ocean.
Read MoreWelcome to my fairy tale bookshelf!
Read MoreMy Dearest Eloise,
I have made the most incredible discovery of my life and you are the only one with whom I wish to share.
Fairy tale tarot! Find me in the overlap of “fairy tales” and “witchy shit”. 🖤
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