"Boldly going where princes fear to touch"
Charmaine's caller ID appeared on my phone."Hi," I said."Hey, Dave. I hope I'm not calling at an inappropriate time," she apologized in advance."Not at all." I was already curious what this call was about."I'm so glad to hear that. Something's...
"Kitana experiments with a potential path"
The potter down by the river was a doddering old man, his arms smeared with clay to the elbows but his clothes somehow pristine. He took my order for a collection of differently-sized beads scaled from a quarter inch all...
"Kitana helps me sort out Lira's stay"
I woke up late the next day. Lira was gone from the bed. I thought she had fled back to Tamara, at least until I rolled over and saw breakfast waiting on the table for me. It wasn’t much, just...
"Mummy Monster hunts and fucks her young prey."
Earlier in the dayMy boy and I are lying in a meadow that overlooks a forest."That forest gives me the creeps," I say. "It's too dark and crowded."He laughs at me, knowing that while I can change form, my human...
"Meeting the witch's wife"
I spent the rest of the day working on my house. Getting four walls up was an accomplishment, but now I knew what I was doing. I wanted to expand my little home and turn it into a proper place...
"Kitana needs some help focusing at work"
Chapter 6 – Giving a Helping Hand The next day, I woke to find Ethel knocking. I opened the door and leaned against the jamb, rubbing the sleep from my eyes. “This is a bit early for a wakeup call, Ethel....
"The exclamation, "Oh my fucking god!" gets a whole new meaning."
The giant slept on her futon mattress, his feet hanging off the end onto the bamboo floor. He’d slept all through the night while Zarafa perched on a shipping crate, studying his face and body in the moonlight for hours....
"Sometimes you have to take drastic steps to make a fairy tale dream come true"
"Do you remember Cinderella?" Charmaine asked.We were in her house again; she'd called and asked me to come over. It was still an odd thing to know the Fairy Queen was living in our modern world, in a small but...
"Kitana surprises me, and she gets what she came for"
Chapter 4 – Lunch Break I startled as my door banged open. Kitana stood in the doorway, her face flushed and an excited smile on her face. She had a bundle of carrots clutched in her hand.“Master Jack! I’m on my...
"The exclamation, "Oh my fucking god!" gets a whole new meaning."
Zarafa Rio sprawled on her belly on a futon, her Titian red hair spilling off the top of the mattress onto a woven grass tatami mat. Sunset bathed the room in a carmine glow that rouged her skin like petals...