King's County Tales
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This Is Not a Fairy Tale
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Summer 2026
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King's County Tales † This Is Not a Fairy Tale † Summer 2026 †
Hannah Gilham
Hannah Gilham is a writer and editor whose short fiction and essays have appeared in 45th Parallel Literary Magazine, Washington Square Review Online, Pacifica Literary Review, and Twenty Bellows. Her work was longlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2025.
She holds an MFA from NYU where she was a Rona Jaffe Fellow, and coordinator of the KGB Writers Reading Series. She grew up in rural Colorado and now lives and writes fairy tales in Denver.
King’s County Tales
This Is Not a Fairy Tale
All Willie Grimmerly ever wanted was to be a big-time reporter. But in a city under new and vicious rule, she may find that her own story is no fairy tale, and in King’s County, there are no happy endings.
Publications
“In Heat”
We are the West:Embers by Twenty Bellows
We skinny-dipped at dawn in this same river, and I had too much to drink and sobbed furiously, convinced my toes might have frostbite. But that’s never the way we tell it at parties.
“Bobby”
45th Parallel Literary Magazine
Eve had read all about the funhouses, and leaving their rotting corpses inside the hotel…
“Coffee in Bed”
Pacifica Literary Review
He takes his skin off to sleep, and, well, last night I wore it. Just around the house of course. It’s not weird if you’re in love.
None of it’s weird. The conjoining of two bodies. The peeling away of each others’ eyelids, licking the corneas, tasting the salt.
Every night, we reach deep into rib cavities, pluck an artery here and there, wrap them around our junkstore bed frame.
Our warning: Don’t forget, you’re mine now and forever.
