The Deal (No Deal) When Nixie hit the surface, it still felt as if her lungs were about to explode, but at the same time, she could fill the air rushing through her lungs, a sense of relief tempering her earlier panic. She could finally breathe again. Seeing the shore in her reach, she sawm…… Continue reading The Deals
Category: Fractured Fairy Tale
Blue Mane
Long ago, in a remote French village, there lived an unusually powerful and infamous countess known only as Blue Mane. Her bright sapphire-hued hair was a bewitching trait in and of itself. Moreover, she had an unusual habit of proposing to the men she married, something unthinkable at the time. However, she found security in…… Continue reading Blue Mane
Collared
The minute Scarlet saw the boy on the ground and the man standing over him with a whip, she knew her trading trip wasn’t going to go as planned. He wasn’t a small man either; he was tall and thick and broad shouldered, with a black wide-brimmed hat and a neat stone-colored beard on his…… Continue reading Collared
The Little Matchstick Girl And The Angry Mob
The story starts off very much like it’s been told. With a little girl, barefooted with tangled yellow- blonde hair, using the ratty apron to carry homemade matches, more matches in her hand, desperately trying to sell them in the fading light of the day, trudging through the cold as snow fell into her tangled…… Continue reading The Little Matchstick Girl And The Angry Mob
My Side Of The Story
I’m not really that evil, you know. I just get a bad rap. I know, I know, right now you’re thinking, “but you forced a couple to give you their baby, locked a little girl in a tower, and then when she got a boyfriend you abandoned her to the wilderness to die and blinded…… Continue reading My Side Of The Story
Humans Make Terrible Pets
It all began simply enough, a family of three sentient bears came home to find that while they were away, someone had taken advantage of the fact that they never thought to invest in a lock. “Somebody’s been eating my porridge.” The Papa Bear declared, looking down at bowel with a spoonful out of it.…… Continue reading Humans Make Terrible Pets
The Prince’s Great Matter
Nowadays, they called it Prosopagnosia, or face blindness. Back then they didn’t know what to call it. Many who knew about the situation thought it was a curse, that the King and Queen had angered some sort of witch or fairy, and the fiend had taken it out on their son. Prince Liam just called…… Continue reading The Prince’s Great Matter
A Classic Case Of Victim Turned Victimizer
Gretel smiled at the sound of scratching on her front door. “Perfect,” She thought, “Just in time.” She was starting to get a few gray hairs and few lines around her eyes. She needed a child. She peaked out the window and saw not one, not two, but three boys going for the pie she…… Continue reading A Classic Case Of Victim Turned Victimizer
Meet The Parents Dinner
Oddly enough, the first thing Beauty noticed was the rosy pink marble veined with deep emerald green, creating a striking contrast on the floor. It was certainly not the color of the floor she had been walking on for the last three months. Confused, she looked up into the face of a young man who…… Continue reading Meet The Parents Dinner