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The October issue will be the second for the new journal and is &#8220;dedicated to developing an understanding of and appreciation for fabulist literature.&#8221; When she wrote the piece, Griffin was thinking more in terms of fable or myth and less so in terms of fiction per se. The four movements in the piece seem to belie the &#8220;or Five&#8221; in the title, but Griffin explains that those two words are &#8220;meant to be just flamingly ambiguous. The witch in the \u2019Red\u2019 piece is mostly the Snow White witch but has a little of the Wicked Witch of the West about her. And in number 4, she\u2019s both the Hansel-and-Gretel witch and the Blair Witch. 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