Stories tagged “fairy tales”
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Designer Duds
The subway ride home was uneventful for the first handful of stops. The stop at Imperial Way started out like all the others – the crowd of suited businessmen all hurrying to get on, grab a seat, and look important even as they eyed each others&#...
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Mirror, mirror
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” The evil Princess gazed hopefully into the swirling mists of the strange mirror. For a moment they swirled faster, then they clarified into an aerial view of the castle. ...
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Snow White in 10 Words
Girl eats apple, swoons. Boy kisses girl. Love conquers all.
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Eternal Sleeper
She walked, barefoot, across a carpet of moss. Her song – soft, haunting – danced on a breath of air, spun through the wood. Only the trees observed her, their bony fingers scraping across her skin, clutching her hair. Dead leaves chittered...
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There was once a little girl.
She was young, so young that even when she should have been sad, she was happy. At least that’s what everyone thought and why no one questioned her keeping such good spirits even after her mother passed. They just assumed she didn’t know ho...
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Nymph-like, she flew through the woods each afternoon,
and each evening she returned home refusing to breathe a word of her adventures. This was the condition. They could only be friends (she and Klaus) for as long as she kept silent about their adventures and spoke of him to no one. It was a condition she...
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As the stupid, young prince
wandered through the woods, he touched the branches of every tree and listened to each vibrant flower’s melody, intently searching for something. It was then that he came upon the little girl, the young heroine sleeping under the hawthorn’s shade a...