Write a fairy tale about someone who can communicate with woodland creatures.

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Bella and the Beasts

Deborah Mercer

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There was once a young woman called Bella, who appeared to all intents and purposes to be a very ordinary and normal young woman, which of course does not mean that she was a boring or uninteresting one. She was the kind of woman described by her workmates as “very pleasant” and had a couple of acceptable quirks, like collecting anything to do with rabbits, though she had not had a pet rabbit since she was a little girl, and like having a taste for unusual earrings, though she was generally quite a sober dresser. She was extremely taken with...

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The Shepherd and the Sorceress

Valerie June

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“Concord, Socks, Prince, Dolly, Lady, Raven. Raven!” a boy hollered, “Oh, where is that creature! When I find her she’s gonna get it from me.” He curses under his breath and prepares to wake up the rest of his flock of sheep with his wooden cane.“Wake up Dolly, we need to find Raven. She’s gone missing again.”The boy hears no reply from Dolly, but he knows that once the rest of his flock are awake she would follow.He grabs a leather and brass cow bell that lays abandoned on the wilting grass with the letters A V E etched into it. Years ...

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Babies and Mushrooms

Trina Ann Pion 🍀🌹🍀

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A young woman named Tessa dreamed of being a princess, not one locked in a tower, or sitting on a throne in a castle, but one who lived in the forest, ruling over a tiny kingdom she called home, where she’d grow vegetables, care for the foliage surrounding her ten-acre property, and raise a beautiful family. Most of all, Tessa wanted babies—lots and lots of babies.  While her head was filled with wishes and dreams, her reality was more of a nightmare. Tessa was known in town as a girl from the ghetto with not a penny to her name or anyo...

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Aidan of the Wood

Christina Reynolds

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TW: abuse Aidan didn’t know why he was beaten. He just was.  Although he did get better at dodging his uncle’s sharp blows and his aunt’s resounding slaps, they seemed to rain down on him like an Irish summer storm. Their scads of children would laugh to see such a sight, pointing at him because he was dirty or his tunic torn. Not hard to tear a tunic in the potato fields, where brambles and thorns seem to seek out his thin legs and inflame the crusty sores on his shins with malevolent intent.  It was far harder not to eat the pota...

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Queen of the Wood Animals

Kirrtanaa Thanesh

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“Mom, I’m going to the woods!”“All right Molly, but take Jack as well,”   Molly went to her five-year-old brother’s room. “I’m going to the woods, wanna come?”“No thanks,” replied Jack.“Okay”“I wanna come,” said Jack.  Molly’s mother entered the room.“Do you want to take a picnic??”“Yes!” cried Jack.“Okay,” said her mother and went to get ready the food for Molly and Jack.                       &nbs...

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The little story teller

Leslie Strom

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The little story teller The apartment building that I live in overlooks a big beautiful green space and beyond that is a River, it is the most beautiful area that I have ever lived. My favourite place to sit is on my balcony that overlooks this beautiful scenery. Every morning I have my cup of tea, something caught my eye this morning and watched this little girl walk out with her mom to place a blanket on the grass with several stuffed animals. The mother walked away to let her daughter play. On the first floor of our apartments the fir...

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Durinda and the Lucky Hex

Melanie Emm.

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Once upon a time, in the village of Mold-Upon-Turnip, there lived an unremarkable girl called Durinda. Her hair wasn’t ebony or chestnut, gold or russet, but a dull shade of blond that someone had once likened to “possum fuzz.” Her skin didn’t shimmer or grow tawny in the summer sun, but was a sickly pale that barely freckled. And her eyes? They were green, but so is grass, and so are leaves.  In Mold-Upon-Turnip there was a cruel woman who held more wealth than God, and possessed less sense than a child, Princess Jet. She called hers...

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A Girl Walks in the Woods

Victoria Lucas

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Once upon a time there was a little girl With great big eyes and bright red curls She lived in a village near the whispering wood And her family was poor but they did what they could At a very young age she learned to hunt for her food And her weapon of choice was a bow that was crude Her mother had warned of the dangerous woods And not to go hunting where no man should Her mother told stories of vicious man eating beasts But the little girl’s belly cried out for meat So she picked up her bow and her little red cape And headed towards dange...

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Another Fairy Tale

Srestha Mondal

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Once upon a time, this was a beautiful Garden.Now, I sit below the broken rib-cage of a tree.I see a skeleton of an arm dangling over my head. Once upon a time, this was a branch. Hope falters in its gaunt, dying fingers like the flickering glow of fading stars in the shroud of night’s darkness. Once upon a time, those were its twigs. Foolish little fingers they are, still waiting for that touch, the touch of the Hand of Life. Years have passed, those silly twigs should have given up already, like the rest of the Garden, like me. They should...

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Edge

Meli Mangos

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Her bare feet skidded across the forest floor as new buds of grass and saplings stretched toward the sky in the early morning light. The year’s winter had been harsh and great storms and winds took the souls of many of the trees that had called the forest home. Today was the first day of spring, and she was late to give her report to the dryad council after they had awoken from their slumber.  “Oh, gosh.” She said to herself as she jumped over a tree log. “Father Gerald will be sore with me.”  Little Yalandra, as she was called b...

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The Caged Bird

Shannon Ethel

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“She’s an odd little thing, isn’t she?” a whispered voice commented to its compatriot, “Completely barmy! Belongs in the mad house!”“Shhh!” the other hushed, “You don’t want the Dragon hearing you!”“Indeed, Miss Fisher,” the housekeeper, Mrs. Carlisle intoned behind the gossiping maids, “That’s the most sensible thing you’ve said all morning.”Startled, the two girls turned, blushing furiously as they awaited the wrath of the afore mentioned Dragon. Mrs. Carlisle raised a ruddy eyebrow and waited.“Sorry!” they spluttered in unison, rushing to...

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Clark

Sandra Claros

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 The first rays of the day were getting ready to lighten the celestial firmament, spreading sparkling diamonds of frosty drops of morning mixed with dark shadows over the flowering trees. My owner, was  a  soft-mannered and honey-sweet looking, wearing a corduroy suit - always smelling aged olive oil , to go together with his grayish hair . At that time of the day, he  Invariably would remove the padlock from the stable gate wearing his smile extended from ear to ear, erasing the detail of his aquiline...

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Backyard Coercion

Tammie Elliott

Submitted to Contest #86

“Come here and talk to me,” Lily pleaded. “I’m just so angry and I need someone to talk to.” “So, talk, I can hear you just fine. What’s he done now? Lily put her hands on her hips and frowned. “Why can’t you just stop what you’re doing for a minute?” “Because I can’t,” Brady said. “Are you going to tell me or not?” She dropped into the lawn chair, flipping her hair behind a shoulder. “I made him dinner. I cooked his favorite steak and he won’t eat it. Evidently you aren’t supposed to boil a filet. It’s cooked. I don’t see the problem.”...

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The Story Of Woodland

Sudhanshu Shekhar

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           Woodland world Woodland world was a developed world. It goes many thing with Woodland people, creatures, king and queen. For they are highly developed and uses developed technology for future.                So there was a tiger teleported from Woodland to another world that was real world Saris.                 &nbsp...

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Quinn and the Fauna Fairy

Siobhan Mulalley

Submitted to Contest #86

Morgan was woken by a tapping on the window. As she opened her eyes, she groaned when she realised it was still dark. This had better be an emergency. Groggily she climbed out of bed wrapping the blanket around her. Spring was around the corner but the nights were still chilly. She walked over to the window to see who it was that had disturbed her slumber. Peering out she was startled to see several forest animals, chattering amongst themselves. “What is so urgent that it cannot wait until morning?” All the animals started at once a...

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