Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

We try to empathize with Maleficent, so we worship the green
fire, think about FOMO, ponder dragons, and more. We also share a
poem called, "actions have consequences," written from the
perspective of Maleficent and written by writer Linda M.
Crate. 


Linda M. Crate's poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews
have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in
print. She has eight published chapbooks: A Mermaid Crashing Into
Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel
Saloon - January 2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars
Publications, August 2016), My Wings Were Made to Fly (Flutter
Press, September 2017),  splintered with terror (Scars
Publications, January 2018), More Than Bone Music (Clare
Songbirds Publishing House, March 2019), the samurai (Yellow
Arrowing Publishing, October 2020), and Follow the Black Raven
(Alien Buddha Publishing, July 2021) and two micro-chapbooks
Heaven Instead (Origami Poems Project, May 2018) and moon mother
(Origami Poems Project, March 2020). She is also the author of
the novel Phoenix Tears (Czykmate Books, June 2018).


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