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Write from the POV of a fairy tale character sharing their side of the story.

Posted in Short Story on Nov 15, 2024

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The Meeting

Submitted to Contest #277

Some years ago, I was playing SoulCaliber and I created this character I called Moonblade, always wore a bandage over her eyes and battled with a halberd using the style of Seong Mina. I based her story from lesser known character from an old fairy tale.The MeetingThe Princess Cindy walked slowly down the stairs of the palace steps, slowing her pace with each foot fall. It seemed a far cry from her previous life as an abused servant girl of her step family, dressed in nothing but old, ragged clothing and now, here she was dressed in the...

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The Maleficio Benefice

Submitted to Contest #277

 – Be hopeful all ye who enter. -I know, I know, they call me Maleficent. Nobody in the human empires remembers or reminded humans, that my name is Benefice. However, you all who read this must understand that Maleficent is the name humans gave me. I went from Benefice to Maleficent, after I stood up for myself and helped the fairies stand up together against human oppression. Sadly, I must say, it is humans who surrounded me since I was little, who decided to turn on me and my fairies, humans turned into our enemy. Or did they? Maybe t...

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I married Donkey

Submitted to Contest #277

Hello, my name is Drakaina, but most or all of you know me as Elizabeth. Yes, yes, I am the dragon that married Donkey. Lately we, Donkey and I, have been getting a lot of fan mail. To be more precise, donkey is getting fan mail. I’m getting hate mail. Quite a few of you she donkeys have written about your displeasure to our happy union. We even received a donkey for donkeys petition. That’s why I have decided to tell you all my story. At the end, I hope you all will let true love prevail. First things first, as many of you have pointed out...

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The Piper's Lament

Submitted to Contest #277

CW: Death and child abduction The man stood gaunt atop the gallows, a spectre of flesh and shadow flanked by two knights encased in blackened steel. Chains clinked softly against his wrists as he shifted, his head bowed low, letting greasy strands of hair obscure his sharp, hollowed features. But not the smile. No, the smile lingered, faint and unsettling as it always did. His clothing stood in stark contrast to his surroundings, with bright extravagant colours. Below, the gathering crowd seethed like a restless tide, their voices rising in ...

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Wanna Dance With Somebody

Submitted to Contest #277

We never meant for all those princes to die, you know. That was all Dad’s idea. I mean, three days isn’t a lot of time to figure out how a dozen girls are getting in and out of their room with no one the wiser every night. If none of our guards, nursemaids, governesses, or ladies’ maids had been able to figure it out since the whole thing started--years ago, mind--how was some random second-or-third-born son after an inheritance supposed to do it in three days? Marta, my oldest sister, told him it was a bad plan, but of course he didn’t list...

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Letter of resignation

Submitted to Contest #277

A Letter of ResignationTo His Royal Highness, King Cole. Let me begin my correspondence by congratulating you on the recent marriage of your son, Prince Charming, to the very amiable Princess Cinderella; I am so very glad that the assistance of every officer in our council in the inspection of the feet of every young woman in the council, proved to in the end be worthwhile. With no one to enforce the law, the crime rate for that day was perhaps the highest recorded in the last five years, but all that is no matter, as long as the young coup...

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The Stepsister

Submitted to Contest #277

I know. I know I got a bad reputation in the story. Called evil even. I am not. No, just a grieving daughter. They ( the other reporters) forget why I was her stepsister in the first place. It is all about Ella. Is my frustration showing? Forgive me. Let me take you back to the time before. “I am sorry. There is nothing more we can do.” I sat beside my mom and sister in the doctor ‘s office. My father lays in a hospital bed a few doors away. He got weak just six short months before then. Tests and scans finally gave us the answer. Cancer. Ag...

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My Little Red

Submitted to Contest #277

Perhaps you’ve heard stories of glass slippers, sleeping beauties, and candied cottages. Or maybe you’ve read about wicked witches, frogged lips, and happily ever afters. Whatever the case, I’m sure, quite sure, you know my story. Well, a version of my story. But it wasn’t told in its entirety, of that I am certain. It’s time I tell the truth, now that she’s almost grown up and has a mind of her own. Now that she wants to hear the real story. Her story. Let me begin. ***There once was a little girl who wore a ho...

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The Mirror's Tale

Submitted to Contest #277

                                                (1,705 words)                             THE MIRROR’S TALE Long ago, I was created by a witch who was bargaining f...

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The Real Fairy Tale Hero

Submitted to Contest #277

“Once upon a time …..”            Woah, woah, woah!!!! Are you seriously going to start our interview with the very phrase that haunts my dreams??? How incredibly insensitive of you! Wow, just wow! Have we not learned anything from the side character uprising of 2010??? Anyway, where was I? Ah, yes, my story. Hello, my name is Dendrick, your purveyor of the gossip of all things fairy tale from the Enchanted Forest. I’m sorry, what was that you said? You have never heard of m...

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The Truth isn't a Page-Turner

Submitted to Contest #277

A great number of assumptions have been made about my intentions. Since day one, I have been labelled “entitled,” “spoiled” and “intrusive,” but has anyone ever stopped to ask for my version of events? Certainly not. They have depicted me in a multitude of unflattering ways in children’s storybooks. I have become a figure of fun. And did they request my permission to do that? Of course not. I could probably sue someone, if I had the appropriate legal aid. Maybe it isn’t too late for that. Why shouldn’t I get some of the royalties when I’m th...

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Bad Hare Day

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They called me ‘The Fox’. Like most of the imaginative names behind fables and fairy tales were wont to do in those days.But we foxes get a bad rep now, don’t we? Skulking round at night. Rifling through bins. Stinking up the place. It seems wildlife illustrators can never get enough of us though. I once saw a woman in the park out walking her dog, then yelling at the poor hound for rolling around in fox shit. After she’d blasted the eardrums of her pet and every other soul trying to soak up the peace and quiet, she reached into her handbag ...

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The Lost Children

Submitted to Contest #277

The woods got lonely in the winter. The tree branches, usually dripping with greenery, were stark and black against the night sky. The life that the forest was usually teeming with was tucked away for the winter. The squirrels that liked to tap dance on my roof were in an acorn-induced food coma. Even the mice that I usually swatted away with my broom had sought shelter for the long, cold nights. It was just me, alone, in my cabin. I was making myself soup when Laura called. "Hello, dear!" I squealed into the phone. My daughter rarely call...

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The Weight of Wool

Submitted to Contest #277

Trigger Warning:This story contains depictions of violence, animal death, familial loss, brief mentions of child death, mild gore, and themes of prejudice driven by religious and societal propaganda. When you hear the word wolf, what comes to mind?The tales of cunning, deceit, aggression, and manipulation? Do the words evil, fear, lie, alone, or death surface in your thoughts? Do you picture the bloodied fangs of a wild, merciless predator glinting under foggy moonlit skies—stalking the edges of the village, waiting for you to stray into th...

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Podcast: Returning to the Castle in the Sky

Submitted to Contest #277

Benny: Good morning, Benny Sondonce here with my weekly podcast Behind the Scenes of True Stories of Fairy Tale Creatures.  Today I am with Henry Gogmagog from the fairy tale saga The Story of Jack Spriggins. Let me be frank, Henry is huge.  We had a struggle to get him in the front door. <laughs> But he is here with us now and we are going to be talking to him about his trespassing issues with Jack Spriggins. So, without further adieu, welcome Henry Gogmagog. Henry:  Hello, thank you Benny for having me.   Ben...

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