A Tiny Feast

Chris Adrian


Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
4.25 · 4 ratings · 15 pages · Published: 20 Apr 2009

A Tiny Feast by Chris Adrian
Titania and Oberon, the immortal Queen and King of the Fairies, live under a hill in a modern city park. To save their marriage, they adopt a mortal toddler and begin to raise him, only to discover he has developed terminal leukemia. What follows, set in a fairy den and an oncology ward, is one of the best (and, somehow, realest) short stories ever written, a haunting exploration of love and death that has followed this reader, at least, into marriage, parenthood, and nearly every subsequent day spent on this earth.

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