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• Introduction (How to Fracture a Fairy Tale) • essay by Marissa Meyer
• How to Fracture a Fairy Tale • essay by Jane Yolen
• Snow in Summer • (2000) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Bridge's Complaint • (1997) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Moon Ribbon • juvenile • (1976) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Godmother Death • (1997) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Happy Dens; or, A Day in the Old Wolves' Home • (1984) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Granny Rumple • (1994) • short story by Jane Yolen
• One Ox, Two Ox, Three Ox, and the Dragon King • (1993) • novelette by Jane Yolen
• Brother Hart • (1978) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Sun/Flight • (1982) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Slipping Sideways Through Eternity • (2007) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Foxwife • (1984) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Faery Flag • (1989) • short story by Jane Yolen
• One Old Man, with Seals • (1982) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Sleeping Ugly • juvenile • (1981) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Undine • (1982) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Great-Grandfather Dragon's Tale • (1986) • novelette by Jane Yolen
• Green Plague • (2000) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Unicorn and the Pool • (1994) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Golden Balls • (1983) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Sister Death • (1995) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Sule Skerry • (1982) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Once a Good Man • juvenile • (1977) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Allerleirauh • (1995) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Gwynhfar • [Merlin's Booke] • (1983) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Cinder Elephant • juvenile • (2000) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Mama Gone • (1991) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Woman Who Loved a Bear • (1994) • short story by Jane Yolen
• Wrestling with Angels • (1996) • short story by Jane Yolen
• The Thing About Fairy Tales • poem by Jane Yolen
• Prince Ever After • (2017) • poem by Jane Yolen
• Troll Maiden on the Bridge • poem by Jane Yolen
• Learning from Those Other Princesses • poem by Jane Yolen
• Stone Hand in Stone Hand: Norvelt Cemetery • poem by Jane Yolen
• Once Upon a Wolf • (2012) • poem by Jane Yolen
• Spinning Straw • poem by Jane Yolen
• "Story," the Old Man Said, • (1993) • poem by Jane Yolen
• Green Children • poem by Jane Yolen (variant of The Green Children 1993)
• Icarus Fall • poem by Jane Yolen
• Ovens • (2017) • poem by Jane Yolen
• Foxwife • (2010) • poem by Jane Yolen
• Carrying the Flag of Faery • poem by Jane Yolen
• On Meeting a God • poem by Jane Yolen
• Old Woman by the Well • poem by Jane Yolen
• Warning from the Undine • (2014) • poem by Jane Yolen
• St. George's Sword and Word • poem by Jane Yolen
• To Be Paid • poem by Jane Yolen
• Rhinoceros • (1994) • poem by Jane Yolen
• Frog Meet Princess • poem by Jane Yolen
• The Keening Woman • poem by Jane Yolen
• When I Was a Selchie • poem by Jane Yolen
• What Do We Need of Heaven • poem by Jane Yolen
• Cinderella in the Ashes • poem by Jane Yolen
• Not That Princess • poem by Jane Yolen
• Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale • (2000) • poem by Jane Yolen
• The Vampire Regrets • poem by Jane Yolen
• Marrying the Bear • (2017) • poem by Jane Yolen
• Jacob's Regret • poem by Jane Yolen