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The Art of Retelling Existing Short Fiction Bundles & Kits or The Dark Knight withoutRetelling old stories has long been revered in literary fiction. Think of Angela Carter's feminist retellings of classic fairy tales in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, or Tom Stoppard's retelling of the story of Hamlet's childhood friends in his play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Or Lauren Groff's repurposing of Greek mythology in her novel, Fates and Furies. The idea of turning the old into the new has long been a practice that