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Tag Archives: fairy tale

  • Thousands of shards littered the floor, shattered pieces of silver light, marred by a splatter of red. She shouldn’t have hit the mirror. [...]

    Mirror, Mirror: A Twisted Fairy Tale

    September 12, 2019
  • Here’s a link to part 1, and summary in case you need a refresher/don’t feel like reading it. Bella’s story begins as [...]

    Spirit Embers: Cinderella Necromancer Pt 2

    May 16, 2019
  • Content warning–implied assault. It’s not as if I wanted to remarry. Six months widowed, with two young daughters–and poor, [...]

    The Stepmother

    February 9, 2019
  • (I had an E-ARC, so I saw neither of these covers, but they’re both pretty in their own ways.)   For Vasilisa, living by the dark [...]

    Spirits, Magic, and Monsters: Review of The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

    January 19, 2017
  • This 8-10 sentence blog hop is hosted by The Weekend Writing Warriors. (Click the link for the list of participants, or rules if you want to [...]

    Weekend Writing Warriors: 6/14

    June 14, 2015
  • This 8-10 sentence blog hop is hosted by The Weekend Writing Warriors. (Click the link for the list of participants, or rules if you want to [...]

    Weekend Writing Warriors: 6/7

    June 7, 2015
  • A second of my fairy tale related poems. Really, fairy tales are kind of dark, if you look at the originals. Boy Who Cried Wolf [...]

    Boy Who Cried Wolf

    November 20, 2014
  • I love retellings of old stories, like fairy tales. One of the stories you see often is Persephone’s story, where a young woman is [...]

    Fairy Tale: Death

    November 8, 2014
  • What are your favorite fairy tales? Your favorite alternative versions? I love a good re-telling. Cinder by Marissa Meyer blew me away, and [...]

    Red

    January 17, 2013
  • So, I have peculiar, lucid dreams. I recognize some dream elements from my life–or books I’ve read, or movies/television I’ve [...]

    Thorn Princess

    August 25, 2012
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