Found 29 works tagged 'fairy tale'.
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Coffee and the Kobold
Published Sep 14, 2020 · 2,480 words (10 minutes) · 85 views
Fantasy Historical Frederick the great fairy tale coffee stories germany coffee kobold
An old soldier meets a kobold who gives him the gift of coffee smelling in Frederick the Great’s Berlin. On one condition...
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Will-o'-the-Wisp
Published Sep 2, 2020 · 1,053 words (4 minutes) · 4 views
Fantasy Literary Fiction Romance surrealism fabulism Love long term relationships fairy tale ghosts folklore
"I see it in the sky from our window night after night. There's a lot of lights in the sky this summer."
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The Ship of Silk on the Calmest Sea
Published May 2, 2020 · 1,162 words (5 minutes) · 239 views
Fantasy fairy tale Lyrical folk tale
Tima works magic with cloth, but it is a magic coveted by her sovereign. This is a fable that the people in the world of The Silk Betrayal tell of the land their ancestors left long ago.
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Asexual Myths & Tales is coming!
Published May 1, 2020 · 51 words (1 minute) · 129 views
Fantasy crowdfunding fairy tale asexuality myths and legends book news lgbtqia+ book promo
A follow-up to Asexual Fairy Tales is coming, featuring prizewinning story "A Wingless Wedding."
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Rotkäppchen
Published Apr 12, 2020 · 5,553 words (21 minutes) · 187 views
Fantasy fairy tale bittersweet Wolf fairy tales retold little red riding hood
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The Thirteenth King
Published Apr 4, 2020 · 2,410 words (9 minutes)
Fantasy Humor fairy tale fairy tales retold quirky uplifting
There is a kind of truth in everything. Even a fairy tale about a boy with twelve books in his back pocket who somehow ends up becoming king of the most beige-brown city imaginable.
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Tam-lin
Published Mar 10, 2020 · 1,543 words (6 minutes) · 348 views
Fantasy Romance retelling fairy tale Scotland traditional
My retelling of the Scottish ballad about a brave girl who risks all to rescue the knight she loves from entrhallment to the Fairy Queen.
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The White Wood
Published Mar 5, 2020 · 5,047 words (19 minutes) · 224 views
Fantasy fairy tale hansel & gretel
With all the interest in fairy tales and lately HANSEL & GRETEL, I read this essay from SyFy with great interest. And I remembered my own take on this fairy tale, an example of a flawed story that sold to a decent market anyway. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-dark-history-behind-hansel-and-gretel?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hanselandgretel&utm_term=paid&utm_content=link_ad&fbclid=IwAR2Q7JbQqww1yulVVRaHCLJGmcw5EFMR7WP7aiFpom-38d7nY5UdG7HrVv4
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The Bone Flute Quartet
Published Feb 29, 2020 · 4,565 words (17 minutes) · 288 views
Fantasy fairy tale dark fantasy secondary world fantasy witches coming of age
Bretchen yearns to become a witch, but the methods of training to become one are occult and closely-guarded secrets. But Bretchen's grandmother has a few ideas for where Bretchen can start, and with her help--and the disturbing pedigree behind her treasured bone flute--Bretchen goes on a quest to uncover the truth of how witches are made.
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The Land of Stone and Stars
Published Dec 9, 2019 · 4,287 words (16 minutes)
Fantasy Science Fiction coping Quest fairy tale quests Family fable death alien planets
Crushed by the loss of his only daughter and last surviving family member, Jackrabbit knows what he must do: venture to the permanently dark side of his homeworld, "the land of stone and stars," so he can find his daughter's spirit among the dead and bring her back before she ascends with the others into the sky. But the journey across the extremes of the planet's habitable zones is hard and bewildering, and for Jackrabbit to succeed, he must lose even more.
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