About the Journal
Lilac & Fable is named after the two things it's built from. Lilac, because it's what my own name, Lily, sounds like when you soften it. Fable, because I wanted that whimsical, not quite real quality fables have, where a story feels more true precisely because it isn't literal.
There's a line I read once that stuck with me more than almost anything else, about loving someone so completely that you have nothing left over to even argue against it. I've never gotten over how exactly it understood something I couldn't have said myself. That's the kind of writing I want this journal to hold: the sentence you didn't know you needed until someone else wrote it first.
What We Believe
We want the story about the curse of not being chosen, and the quiet, stubborn hope that a red string is still pulling you toward the right person, just not yet. We want the daughter who's carrying more than she was ever asked to, labelled "angry" for wanting a break she never gets to take, whether she's the oldest, the only one, or just the one who ended up holding it all. We want whatever you've been sitting on because it felt too specific, too embarrassing, or too heavy to say out loud anywhere else.
Honest writing over polished writing. A real memory, a 300-word flash story, an essay about a mood you can't quite name, even a piece about personal style or fashion history treated with the same seriousness as fiction. All of it belongs here, as long as it's yours and it's true to how you actually feel.
Editor-in-Chief
Lily N.
Faculty Advisor Akari
Editorial Board - To be announced