The fourteen fantastical stories in Magic For Unlucky Girls take the familiar tropes of fairytales and twist them into new and surprising shapes. These unlucky girls, struggling against a society that all too often oppresses them, are forced to navigate strange worlds as they try to survive.

Put back together again -- Postpartum -- Eden -- Food my father feeds me, love my husband shows me -- Three times red -- Let down your long hair and then yourself -- Suburban alchemy -- The Ibex girl of Qumran -- Beasts -- The romantic agony of Lemonhead -- Mermaid -- Bloody Mary -- Juniper -- All who tremble.