title: Fairy Tales for Writers
author: Lawrence Schimel
description: Lawrence Schimel (born October 16, 1971) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Academy of American Poets. He is a founding member of the Publishing Triangle, an organization of lesbians and gay men in the publishing industry, which he chaired for two terms (1996-1998). His work has received the Lambda Literary Award and the Rhysling Award, and has been nominated for the Frecracker Alternative Book Award, the Small Press Book Award, ForeWord Book of the Year Award, the Spectrum Award, and a number of other publishing awards. It has translated into Basque, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, and Spanish. Lawrence Schimel is also a word geek and a champion at Prolific. He has won many an acclaimed award in this venture which has brought him worldwide recognition. Schimel currently lives in Madrid, Spain.
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  TWENTY-THREE TALES
  
  
    
    
  PREFACE
  
  
    
    
  [PART I: TALES FOR CHILDREN: PUBLISHED ABOUT 1872.
  
  
    
    
  [1 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS  
    
  ](TWENTY-THREE%20TALES_split_001.html#filepos10475)[2\. A PRISONER IN THE
  CAUCASUS  
    
  ](TWENTY-THREE%20TALES_split_001.html#filepos28013)[3\. THE BEAR-HUNT
  
  
    
    
  [PART II. POPULAR STORIES
  
  
    
    
  [4\. WHAT MEN LIVE BY  
    
  ](TWENTY-THREE%20TALES_split_002.html#filepos107385)[5\. A SPARK NEGLECTED
  BURNS THE HOUSE  
    
  ](TWENTY-THREE%20TALES_split_002.html#filepos154331)[6\. TWO OLD MEN  
    
  ](TWENTY-THREE%20TALES_split_002.html#filepos188851)[7\. WHERE LOVE IS, GOD IS
  
  
    
    
  [PART III. A FAIRY TALE
  
  
    
    
  [8\. THE STORY OF IVAN THE FOOL
  
  
    
    
  [PART IV. STORIES WRITTEN TO PICTURES
  
  
    
    
  [9\. EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES  
    
  ](TWENTY-THREE%20TALES_split_004.html#filepos325678)[10\. LITTLE GIRLS WISER
  THAN MEN  
    
  ](TWENTY-THREE%20TALES_split_004.html#filepos330785)[11\. ILYAS
  
  
    
    
  [PART V. FOLK-TAL