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“Horror isn’t often this intelligent. Fairytales aren’t usually this smart.”
Satan’s youngest daughter works at a call center. The Twelve Dancing Princesses lure men into an underground nightclub. A dancing bear falls in love and into addiction. The Queen of All Magic throws a party on the bayou to celebrate the death of her soulmate. I’ll Tell You a Love Story does exactly as its title promises; tells love stories. Stories that blend the ordinary with the mythic, mixes the everyday with fables, and shifts between hope and heartache.
“With each shake you’re in a new, fully realized world, somehow swirling around love, places we look for help at our most damaged, recognizable hungers that remain unresolved.”
– Karen Schubert, author of Black Sand Beach
“Johnson’s stories are searing portrayals of love, of longing, and of people discovering ways to live once they’ve been stripped of their illusions. Read them.”
– Rebecca Barnhouse, author of The Book of the Maidservant
“Surprising in their originality, filled with broken wisdom, and with a refreshing use of language and imagery, these are stories to savour and mull over one at a time but which add up to a satisfying whole.”
– Tim Jeffreys, author of You Will Never Lose Me
“… when the final dance is over, you’ll realize you’ve been swept away, that you’ve been told a love story, and that you’ve also lived it.”
– Christopher Barzak, author of Wonders of the Invisible World
COURI JOHNSON grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, a city that is equal parts lush forest and American Rustbelt. She graduated from the North Eastern Ohio Master of Fine Arts. She’s spent the last few years in rural Japan, where she teaches English, reads a lot of fairytales and runs an online literary magazine for female identified authors known as Willow. To find more out about her work visit www.courijohnson.com
