Tanglewood (Luna Press Publishing), Knicky L. Abbott’s debut novella, is set in a fictional 1840s Barbados. Incorporating the Barbadian folklore figure of the Steel Donkey into its speculative worldbuilding, Tanglewood presents star-crossed lovers linked by station and circumstance to a stately manor. Envisioned as a response to Beauty and the Beast, the novella develops into a postcolonial reckoning with the darker elements of romance, alongside a history of the impoverished Irish descendants, often called “redlegs”, who made Barbados their home.