Stories tagged with "fairy tale"

  • Bold Steps [Six Word Sequel] Inspired by text

    There, I said it. Now he was left to deal with it, like it or lump it. Granted, perhaps I could have chosen a more opportune …

  • The Miller's Daughter

    Extract from a creative writing project I did a while ago

    Full moon. Howling wolves.

    The young miller’s daughter was gro…

  • The Mouse's Story Part II Inspired by text

    On the night the sorcerer would die, he held the Mouse close to him. The little orange-furred creature blinked with her brigh…

  • The Mouse's Story Part I Inspired by text

    Once upon a time, there was a young sorcerer, and his magic was the most powerful in his kingdom and all the land beyond. But…

  • Swan

    Delicate feathers of white
    lay flat,
    eased by the lake
    under the sun’s warmth.

    If only this princess
    this imaginative p…

  • The Boy, The Girl, and The Black Crow

    Once upon a time there lived a boy and a girl who were poorer than even church mice, so poor that their only roof was the sky…

  • From The Blue Inspired by a photo

    In a sinkhole surrounded by forest, covered in cobwebs and ivy and all manner of weedy underbrush, lay a secret.

    It was Gabe…

  • The Reflection Inspired by text

    With a shudder Regina withdrew her hand leaving ripples like a stone dropped in a dawn pond.

    Shimmering softly, her soggy re…

  • Through the Looking Glass Inspired by text

    “Who’s there?” Regina whispered, eyes darting around the derelict structure. No voice answered, but she was drawn back to the…

  • So Cliche 3 1/2 Inspired by text

    The prince, of course, being the stuck up idiot that he is, sent his less well known brother Prince Morgan to remove the shoe…