This year I had the opportunity to re-issue two of my first publications with Less Than Three Press: Part of Your World and Beast. Both stories initially appeared in the fifth volume of Fairy Tales Slashed back in 2013. When the editors initially approached me about re-issuing them, I assumed I would do a quick read through for any errors that had slipped through on the first printing and call it a day.

When I read them, however, I was really shocked by what I found.

I wrote both stories at...