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A review by coboshimself_
In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey
4.0
"Where do tales begin after all? Once upon a time.
Once upon a time. So tales begin, each alike in some desperate season. Yet many other crisis—starting points for altogether different tales— wait to unfold themselves on the rich loam of every story, like seeds germinating among the roots of a full-grown tree? How came that father to be so faithless? What made his wife cruel? What brought the witch to those woods and imparted to her appetites so so unsavory?
So many links in the chain of circumstance. So many stories inside stories, waiting to be told.
Once upon a time."
Once upon a time. So tales begin, each alike in some desperate season. Yet many other crisis—starting points for altogether different tales— wait to unfold themselves on the rich loam of every story, like seeds germinating among the roots of a full-grown tree? How came that father to be so faithless? What made his wife cruel? What brought the witch to those woods and imparted to her appetites so so unsavory?
So many links in the chain of circumstance. So many stories inside stories, waiting to be told.
Once upon a time."