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  • 119: It’s A Metaphor!

    119: It’s A Metaphor!
    Feb 24 2026
    This week on Fairy Tale Fix, the horrors persist but so do we! Because we have to. Kelsey follows up on her promise to deliver some Chinese dragons in The Four Dragons, and then reads a short, truly WTF Chinese fairy tale The Magic Cask. Abbie reads a beautiful Russian tale we've both heard of but knew nothing about–The Princess and the Firebird.
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    1 h et 16 min
  • 118: High Quality Nasty Horse Stories

    118: High Quality Nasty Horse Stories
    Feb 10 2026
    Happy Lunar New Year! Abbie celebrates the onset of the Year of the Horse (her people!) with telling the tale of how the Chinese Zodiac came to be in the first place, followed up with a timeless horse trope here on Fairy Tale Fix with The Girl With The Horse’s Head (another excellent Chinese fairy tale). Kelsey follows up with another great FTF staple involving rich people being in hell: The Fiddler in Hell.
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    1 h et 22 min
  • 117: Interspecies Elopement

    117: Interspecies Elopement
    Jan 28 2026
    We're back from our winter break to start off 2026 with a couple of fairy tales our wonderful listeners suggested! Kelsey reads the Japanese tale, The Cat's Elopement, and it's as adorable as you'd imagine. Next she regales the Portuguese fairy tale, The Enchanted Maiden, and it's not exactly the story our listener suggested and we're sorry. Abbie cold-reads an absolutely delightful German tale from Schleswig-Holstein that follows an old woman minding her own business before heading to bed called One, Two, Three.
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    1 h et 19 min
  • 116: An End To Nonsense

    116: An End To Nonsense
    Dec 16 2025
    It's the most wonderful time of the year! Come gather around the yule log and listen to some holiday tales: one with a big dose of colonialism (boo) before our favorite sad bisexual Victorian boy (yay!), Hans Christian Andersen brings the mood up for a change. Abbie tells a Mexican Christmas story about the poinsettia, or as we shall call it henceforth, cuetlaxōchitl (kwet-lah-SHO-shee-tl). Kelsey closes out 2025 with HCA's new year's tale, The Twelve Who Came by Mail, followed by The Snail and the Rosebush as a reminder to all of us to keep blooming and pay those who refuse no mind. Happy Holidays and see you next year!
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    1 h et 13 min
  • 115: Old Jerkin’ It Johnson

    115: Old Jerkin’ It Johnson
    Nov 25 2025
    Is anyone else having an existential crisis? No? Just us? Well strap in because it's real clear on Fairy Tale Fix this week! Kelsey tells a Swedish fairy tale about how we humans keep having to learn the same lesson of not allowing people to hoard wealth over and over again in The Barrel Bung. Abbie's story also has a strong message about the importance of taking care of people who some might deem unworthy in Japanese folk tale Ubasute-yama (Mother-Rid Hill). Our fix for both stories? Eat the rich.
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    1 h et 3 min
  • 114: The Gaslighting Girl Boss of Yore

    114: The Gaslighting Girl Boss of Yore
    Nov 11 2025
    We love an unplanned theme! This week on Fairy Tale Fix, we're keeping busy with Abbie reading an Italian folk tale called The Man Who Only Came Out At Night, a story that's barely about that man at all. Kelsey then reads a Scottish fairy tale entitled A Box of Fairies, where a smitten young lad is given very specific instructions, and do you think he follows them?
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    1 h et 1 min
  • 113: WRONG! feat. Chadwick Heiberg

    113: WRONG! feat. Chadwick Heiberg
    Oct 28 2025
    Our favorite nomadic gnome and spellbound storyteller is back for the third installment of his Baba Yaga series, we welcome Chadwick Heiberg back to Fairy Tale Fix! Chadwick reads his original fairy tale, The Road to Baba Yaga, and answers some very important questions we’ve had about our favorite witchy grandmother. Then, Kelsey finishes up this Halloween episode with two more stories from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Wait Till Martin Comes and Aaron Kelly’s Bones.
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    1 h et 11 min
  • 112: Slay… Literally

    112: Slay… Literally
    Oct 7 2025
    It's Halloween season! Abbie kicks things off by telling us all about our childhood favorites; the Ouija Board Demon and Bloody Mary, followed by the terrifying English legend of Black Annis. Kelsey follows it up with a millennial Halloween favorite with more Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, featuring The Haunted House and Room for One More.
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    1 h et 5 min