<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Our journey begins under the gaze of </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The Faery Godmother</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> by cover artist</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> Ashley Rose Goentoro</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. We step into a ghost story 'Man with Golden Helmet' by feature author </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Renée Sarojini Saklikar</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Dawn Lo</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> in 'Little Snowflake Girls' and </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Weiwei Xu</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> in 'Chimera' introduce us to young people exploring meaningful questions of identity and belonging. Like trailside inukshuks, memories pile up and tumble away in 'Moons of Saturn' by </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">James Dorr</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, 'Practising the Art of Forgetting' by </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Soramimi Hanarejima</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, and</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> </strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'Starry Nights' by </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">David Milne</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">AJ Lee</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, in 'What Kind of Story', and Magpie winners </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Charlene Kwiatkowski</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Maria Ford</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, and </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Cara Waterfall</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> delight with their bewitching words. Solutions to two very different puzzles emerge with </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Susan Pieters</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> in 'Hoax' and </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Cameron MacDonald</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> in 'Mourgadze'. Whether by way of closet or carriage, keeping safe means keeping up appearances for Frankie Ray in 'The Sleuth with the Platinum Hair' by </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Mel Anastasiou</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> and Toinette in 'The Shepherdess: Versailles' by </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">JM Landels</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">.</span></p>
