"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...
"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...
"Would you fall down the same rabbit hole twice?"
Somehow, Charmaine always seemed to know when I wasn't doing much."Dave. Can you come over?""To your place?""Of course, dumb dumb." She hung up.It only took me twenty minutes to get to her tiny house at the edge of town. I...
"The fuck-filled fairy tale begins..."
Once upon a time in a land far away, in a time before fairy tales, there lived a witch named Cordelia. The air was crisp. The grass was green, and Cordelia crushed it all with her patent leather boots. Her...
"Young Lacie learns to display herself before a sea captain but can she conquer the Sultan?"
Sunshine sparkled over a fairytale sea. Sails of red, blue and yellow glided in serene dance, measured by the same gentle breeze that played over Lacie's dress as she reclined on her favourite grassy down. From its slope high over...
"Being brutalized for so long eventually makes one brutal in return."
The rumble snapped Fauna’s attention ― horse hooves pounding into hardened earth. She cautiously peered down from her cave; a cliffside hideaway perched more than ten meters above the forest floor. A golden misty glow surrounded four horsemen who came to...
"Every king needs a line of succession"
Surely love’s magic would rouse his children from their cursed sleep. But no princess had yet stirred Prince Fredrick. Likewise, no prince had awakened Princess Aurora.The king desperately needed a woke heir. Reluctantly, he turned to Prince Bryan and Princess...
"altocalciphilia is the sexual attraction to high heels"
The man staggered along the Grassmarket. The area below the Castle battlements was thronged with crowds on a rare sunny Saturday afternoon in Edinburgh. He looked like he hadn’t slept in weeks. His hair was dishevelled, sticking up as if...
"All's well that (mostly) ends well."
It was a setting where he really should have known better, but nonetheless the prince insisted in generally referring to peasant women as baggage when he was out on his carriage rides.It was only a matter of time before one...
Ashes gritty grayThe kindest heart batteredAssailed by sneers Adorned in tatters Dreaming improbablyDays end to endInvitation omittedWhen enchantment descends She enters the ballroomIn her splendor aglowHeads turn to see herA sight to behold Bewitched and bewitchingAs they take the floorYet...
