REVIEW: “By Candlelight, By Blue Jeans” by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska

Review of Elitsa Dermendzhiyska, “By Candlelight, By Blue Jeans,” Flash Fiction Online 156 (September 2026): 20-23 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

This was a story of ordinary, every day magic — which despite its ordinariness is one of the most powerful kinds of magic out there, as this story, set behind the Iron Curtain, shows. I loved it.

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