Meg
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A.C. Wise:
What made you want to tell the stories of what happened after Peter Pan? Have you ever considered expanding upon the "after happily ever after" for other common fairy stories/tales?
A.C. Wise
Hi, Meg! I've always felt that the Peter Pan story had dark undercurrents and I was interested in exploring those and bringing them to the surface. I also really liked the idea of Wendy as a mother going on an adventure, as portal fantasies - the original Peter Pan included - tend to focus on children having adventures and parents being left behind to worry off the page. Those were two of the big reasons that I wanted to re-tell and re-imagine the story. As for other classic stories and fairy tales - maybe! I've written some short fiction that reimagines fairy tales and other classics, but at the moment I have no immediate plans for something novel length. That's not to say I won't do something like that in the future!
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Neo_in_Libroland
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A.C. Wise:
?Not a question — I just wanted to let you know that I just read your short story Exhalation #10, and it made me feel things I didn’t even know I had in me. I’ve been in a reading slump for such a long time that I had almost forgotten what it’s like to read a story with your whole being. Your story reminded me just how important stories are in my life. And I wanted to thank you for that!
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