Fantasy as a safe space: The Front Range Fantasy Festival lets people live their internal lives externally

Resting in a clover patch in her family’s backyard, Zarah O’Holleran opens her mom’s old fairy-tale book.

As she has done many times before, this was her way of escaping.

Filled with art nouveau details and illustrations, paired with magical stories, the “fairy veil” appeared — a crossroads between time and dimensions. A Fairy Queen and her court appear before her. In that clover patch, O’Holleran dreams of the stories these fairy-tale visitors have, and the chaos inside her house fades away…

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