You may think you know their story. Snow-White stays quietly at home, Rose-Red opens the door to a bear, and everything ends with two princes and two weddings.
But who decided that was the ending the sisters wanted?
This playful feminist retelling by by Gillian Isaacs Russell gives Snow-White and Rose-Red the chance to tell a different story. They laugh too loudly, have no interest in housework and refuse to let marriage be the grand conclusion to their lives. Instead, they learn to wield swords, set sail and make an adventure of their own.
Funny, spirited and full of mischief, this short story takes a familiar fairy tale and asks what happens when its heroines choose freedom for themselves.
Published as part of Lemon Jelly Press’s micro booklet series, which gives unpublished writers a platform to share their work and take the next step in their writing careers.
One final line. Countless ways to reach it.
The Forest Knows the True Beast is an anthology of short stories and poetry built around one simple challenge: every contributor was asked to create an original piece ending with the exact same sentence:
The forest knows the true beast.
What comes before those words is entirely their own.
The collection moves through horror, folklore, fantasy, eco-fiction, dark fairy tales and poetry, with each writer taking the shared ending somewhere completely different. Strange creatures wait between the trees, old legends are reimagined, landscapes fight back and familiar worlds become unsettling.
At its heart, this is a celebration of imagination, interpretation and the many different stories that can grow from a single line.
Different voices follow different paths., but all end with the same final sentence.
By Rachel Tribble
A moment of stillness. A breath of moonlight. A story to be read slowly.
Moon is a lyrical, meditative short story by multidisciplinary artist and writer Rachel Tribble. Winner of our monthly Flash Fiction competition, this powerful micro booklet invites you into a quiet, otherworldly moment, where the sky glows, the sea listens, and time seems to hold its breath.
Designed as a mindfulness reading experience, Moon is best read a line at a time, a slow breath per page. It’s a small book with big presence, perfect for pockets, calm corners, and anyone in need of a gentle pause.
By N. J. Simat
This intimate prose poem by N. J. Simat explores the quiet tension between instinct and compassion, cruelty and mercy. When a goose, a snake, and a human cross paths, their brief encounter becomes a lens through which the narrator examines the cost of kindness—and the contradictions we carry.
Told with lyrical precision and philosophical weight, Mother Goose and Her Kind Beast is a small but powerful meditation on moral reckoning, emotional inheritance, and the choices we make when no one is watching.
Perfect for readers of hybrid work, flash fiction, and experimental poetry.
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Lemon Jelly Press is an independent publisher based on the Isle of Wight, dedicated to bold, original writing that challenges, surprises, and stays with you.
We publish work that is strange, offbeat, and quietly powerful, championing underrepresented voices and creating space for writers who may have faced barriers to traditional publishing. From children’s books that support emotional literacy to fiction that unsettles and transforms, everything we produce is shaped with care, intention, and a commitment to meaningful storytelling.
Alongside our publishing work, we are deeply rooted in our local community. We run a range of creative writing workshops and groups across the Isle of Wight, including a women’s writing group, children’s sessions delivered through Artswork, and targeted workshops supporting children’s mental wellbeing. Our heritage projects explore place, identity, and lived experience, bringing together voices from across the Island.
Together, this work forms a wider mission: to make writing accessible, empowering, and relevant to the communities we serve. You can read more about our impact and activity in our Activity Report.
Every book we publish is chosen with purpose. We champion underrepresented voices and writers who have faced barriers to traditional publishing. Our aim is simple: to create space for stories that might otherwise go unheard, and bring them to the forefront with clarity and care.
By Jason Watts
A quiet ritual. A whispered tradition. A story carried on the hum of wings.
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Telling the Bees is a beautifully crafted A6 micro booklet that draws on the old folklore practice of speaking to bees in times of loss, love, and change. In this delicate and evocative piece, Jason Watts explores memory, grief, and the fragile threads that connect us to the natural world.
Perfect for slipping into a pocket, gifting to a friend, or returning to in quiet moments, this micro booklet offers a brief but resonant reading experience—one that lingers long after the final page.
Printed in a compact A6 format, this edition is part of our micro booklet series: small in size, but rich in atmosphere and meaning.
By Daphne Harries
Three Strikes is a lyrical and haunting micro-booklet by Welsh and Australian poet Daphne Harries. Rooted in matriarchal memory, folklore and the emotional landscapes of mountains and water, this collection of three interconnected poems circles the Welsh folktale of Llyn y Fan Fach.
Each poem reflects a different echo of the myth: the strike of separation, the strike of memory and the strike of return. Together, they form a quiet braid of longing, inheritance and reclamation, exploring what we carry in our bodies, what we lose through distance and silence, and what the land remembers even when we forget.
Daphne’s voice feels both ancient and sharply contemporary. In these poems she revisits the mother at the lake’s edge, the pull of home that lives in the body, and the intimate relationships between language, identity and place. Lines linger long after reading, moving through folklore, family and the blurred spaces between what is inherited and what is reclaimed.
Daphne Harries is a Welsh and Australian poet currently studying English at Oxford. Her work often dwells on matriarchs, mountains and bogs, shaped by myth, land and memory. When she is not writing, she enjoys tea, fantasy literature and naps.
Three Strikes is part of the Lemon Pip micro-booklet series from Lemon Jelly Press.
By Heidi Hinda Chadwick
An enchanting tale where Manchester’s familiar streets tilt toward the uncanny. The Story of the Deer Woman is a strange, sensual and fiercely imaginative novella from writer and performer Heidi Hinda Chadwick.
After a chance encounter inside the Manchester Museum, an ordinary woman finds her life beginning to unravel in wild and impossible ways. Reality blurs. Desire stirs. Antlers bloom. What follows is a journey into metamorphosis, myth and the hidden animal inside us all.
Chadwick’s writing is vivid, lyrical and daring. Influenced by the unsettling brilliance of Mona Awad, Bora Chung, Sayaka Murata and Ottessa Moshfegh, she creates a world where the macabre meets the human, where power and eros live at the edges, and where the strange becomes a kind of truth.
This is the first adult fiction title from Lemon Jelly Press, chosen for its bold heart and its commitment to amplifying unheard and marginalised voices. A story that is unsettling, beautiful and unforgettable.
For release August 15th.
More than fifty writers. One unforgettable final line.
From lyrical poetry and literary fiction to flash fiction and experimental prose, every piece in this unique anthology ends with the same haunting sentence:
“By morning, the sea had taken it.”
The result is a remarkable collection of voices from around the world, each taking the reader somewhere entirely unexpected. Together, these poems and stories explore love, loss, memory, mystery, hope, humour, and the many ways a single line can transform a narrative.
A celebration of imagination and the endless possibilities of storytelling, this pamphlet proves that while every ending may be the same, every journey is completely unique.
As a Community Interest Company, Lemon Jelly Press develops creative projects that support and celebrate our local community. From school workshops and literacy programmes to opportunities for people to share their stories, our projects use writing and publishing to bring people together and amplify voices that deserve to be heard.
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