Found 24 works tagged 'fairy tale'.
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Tam-lin
Published Mar 10, 2020 · 1,543 words (6 minutes) · 90 views
Fantasy Romance retelling fairy tale Scotland traditional
My retelling of the Scottish ballad about a brave girl who risks all to rescue the knight she loves from entrhallment to the Fairy Queen.
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The White Wood
Published Mar 5, 2020 · 5,047 words (19 minutes) · 34 views
Fantasy fairy tale hansel & gretel
With all the interest in fairy tales and lately HANSEL & GRETEL, I read this essay from SyFy with great interest. And I remembered my own take on this fairy tale, an example of a flawed story that sold to a decent market anyway. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-dark-history-behind-hansel-and-gretel?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hanselandgretel&utm_term=paid&utm_content=link_ad&fbclid=IwAR2Q7JbQqww1yulVVRaHCLJGmcw5EFMR7WP7aiFpom-38d7nY5UdG7HrVv4
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The Bone Flute Quartet
Published Feb 29, 2020 · 4,565 words (17 minutes) · 47 views
Fantasy fairy tale dark fantasy secondary world fantasy witches coming of age
Bretchen yearns to become a witch, but the methods of training to become one are occult and closely-guarded secrets. But Bretchen's grandmother has a few ideas for where Bretchen can start, and with her help--and the disturbing pedigree behind her treasured bone flute--Bretchen goes on a quest to uncover the truth of how witches are made.
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The Land of Stone and Stars
Published Dec 9, 2019 · 4,287 words (16 minutes)
Fantasy Science Fiction coping Quest fairy tale quests Family fable death alien planets
Crushed by the loss of his only daughter and last surviving family member, Jackrabbit knows what he must do: venture to the permanently dark side of his homeworld, "the land of stone and stars," so he can find his daughter's spirit among the dead and bring her back before she ascends with the others into the sky. But the journey across the extremes of the planet's habitable zones is hard and bewildering, and for Jackrabbit to succeed, he must lose even more.
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Snow Star
Published Dec 5, 2019 · 154 words (1 minute) · 196 views
Fantasy fairy tale christmas flash fiction snow star magical
A Flash Fiction Fairy Tale for Christmas. On Christmas night, the children gather in the snow cave...
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Sickly Sweet
Published Nov 30, 2019 · 4,298 words (16 minutes) · 157 views
Fantasy candy forest lesbian queer fairy tale witches food hansel and gretel dark fantasy the girl without hands lgbt woods witch
A cross between 'The Girl Without Hands' and 'Hansel and Gretel', from the witch's perspective.
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Bold Ellensborg
Published Aug 12, 2019 · 4,234 words (16 minutes) · 1 view
Humor Historical Romance fairy tale medieval Humour Happily ever after?
Another humorous fairy tale based on a ballad from medieval Denmark. Bold Ellensborg, fed up with her beloved's failure to return from a trip to the Holy Land, crews a ship with her maidens and sets sail to fetch him home.
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Her Echo
Published Aug 10, 2019 · 592 words (3 minutes) · 1 view
Fantasy Love fairy tale dark fable flash fiction
When the Old Wise Woman of the Tall Bright Hills finally passed through the veil, she left three things behind--her Reflection, her Shadow, and her Echo--and granted them their freedom. But when they all espy a beautiful youth, everything changes.
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Fair Vasyl
Published Jun 27, 2019 · 14,939 words (55 minutes) · 1 like · 290 views
Fantasy Romance fairy tale steampunk magic baba yaga
I was invited to submit a story to CLOCKWORK FAIRY TALES, which wanted steampunk versions of well-known fairy tales. I've always loved Baba Yaga stories, so a steampunk version of "Vasilisa the Beautiful" was a no-brainer. But I needed to add one more twist . . .
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The Color of Sand
Published Jun 20, 2019 · 6,973 words (26 minutes) · 1 view
Fantasy happy ending fairy tale cats Family the ocean The Sea secondary world fantasy
Exiled from town, Fairday is forced to raise her son, Catch, among the talking sand cats in the dunes and survive by selling the beautiful but mysterious stones that sometimes wash up on the beach. When Catch accidentally swallows one--and magically quadruples in size--Fairday must face her past to restore her son and rebuild her family in a way she never anticipated.
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