Stories tagged “fairy tale”
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The Good Witch
In her father’s desperation to find her a new mother, Suzie and Dad fell prey to a shrewd woman with two nasty daughters of her own. Moving into their home atop a hill outside of town was one of the worst days in her young life. It was tall and s...
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The Fairy Trade
A shoemaker and his wife lived together in a small cottage with their thirteen young children. The family was very poor. One warm spring night the shoemaker’s wife was in the bedroom with her youngest child, an infant. The other twelve children were ...
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Don't see many of your type 'round here
16 working hours, an 8AM meeting, and no lunch sucks. Finding cabs on rainy Thursday midnights is im-fucking-possible. So, to put it lightly, I’ m not having a stellar day to begin with as I head home, ratty umbrella failing against the wet. The ...
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Apple crumble
Someone knocked at the door, so I dusted the flour from my hands as best I could, picked up the rolling pin, and headed, bent nearly double and cursing, down the hallway to open it. Outside was stood an arrogant woman badly disguised as an apple seller...
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Tower Prisons are for Wussies
I only remember waking up. I knew who I was, but not where I was, nor how I got there. The cold stone floor was slick with morning dew, the sun was barely over the horizon outside the tiny window. The room was round, with a cot of some sort and a pot t...
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Aurora, Awakened
“She roams the forest at night as though sleepwalking, our nightmarish Princess. That infernal owl clings to Her wrist and whispers the Witch’s orders in Her ear. Have not you noticed the absence of the Good Faeries? They stay locked in a l...
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Evil Princess, Part 1
The girl was sitting on a bench and reading a book. She was aware of someone approaching. She gazed up and saw the huntsmen wielding a dagger. The girl made eye contact with him. He was forced to look. The huntsman was overcome and fell to his knees. H...
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The Path Home
He gazed at the sleeping woman in his arms. Her head rested on his shoulder and she held him loosely. Down the path the mist thickened and eddied in the moonlight. He shifted her higher in his arms and she stirred against him in response. He pressed hi...
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Honey, I Traded the Cow...
“Honey! I traded the cow for something awesome!” Stanley said as he returned home. His wife gave him an exasperated look as she had long ago realized she’d married beneath her intellectually. “For the love of…” she m...
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Walt's Turning Over in His Grave
“Thank God Belle, you’re still here. You’ve gotta help me.” “Why?” “I’m late, I’m late! For a very important date. My first date ever, actually. Lend me your car?” “Sure. When hell freez...
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The Legend of Binky and Dairy Queen
Diary Queen set a blizzard against her starving serfs, soft swirling them into submission. One alone busted her dictatorial parfait: Binky. Cone or cup, cake or creamy swirl the Dairy Queen preened in her stainless steel court as Binky launched lime je...
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The Sentence
Once upon a time in a far away land there was a sentence that lived on a sheet of white paper. The sentence had long ago been imprisoned by a wicked monster named Apathy. The sentence longed to be continued, but to no avail. The other prisoners in the ...
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Charming
The first thing I did was smudge away the crusts around my eyes. As my vision adjusted to the light and became clearer, I found that the blob above me was a face. A handsome face, looking straight at me. “Well, don’t you look charming,” I drawled...