Z S Adani at The Fix has reviewed the latest issue of Shimmer, and has nice things to say about my story, ‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’:

‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’ by Stephanie Campisi is a modern day fairy tale, tragic, as many fairy tales are. People either look through her or past her, until one day, a wealthy young man stumbles into her. After admiring her beauty, he offers her a job, which she gratefully accepts. Maids fuss over her and spray her with a fine silver paint, after which she is hung on the wall in an ornate gold frame so that people may admire her. The handsome young man comes to admire her every day, and the glass girl finds herself falling in love with him. Time passes, and the young man grows older, until one day he says to her, “You are no longer beautiful.”

The tragedy of the glass girl struck me as an allegory of today’s trophy wives. Campisi captures the plight of the glass girl well, and while the ending wasn’t a surprise, this is a well-crafted story with beautiful prose. Recommended.