[story] generations (or: how the mermaid returned to the sea)

author: lynn (readerofasaph)

( The mermaid was four generations removed from the sea. )

[story] spindle's worth

author: roselia grimm
email: a.grimm.rose [at] gmail.com

( There is a girl spinning in the marketplace. )

[other] shangri-la

author: e

artist: jackie (vivaldi)
email: macaulay.station [at] gmail.com

It is at any rate essential to a genuine fairy-story, as distinct from the employment of this form for lesser or debased purposes, that it should be presented as "true."

- "On Fairy-Stories," J.R.R. Tolkien

( Beauty is mapped in Europe's finest, her closets stuffed with Prada, Versace and Ferragamo. )

[story] rapunzel

author: tokyofish (tokyofish)
email: tokyofish [at] gmail.com

( Everybody thinks they know my story. )

[story] mirror must out

author: suki langdon (not_cynical)
email: arachnofobia [at] hotmail.com

( Once upon a time there was a beautiful sorceress who lived in a spiralling tower near a town. )

[story] roseabelle and thorin

author: a. h. m. (tumblewhim)
email: tumumbling [at] hotmail.com

( The old crone was unforgiving when he returned to the little clearing with nothing but fruit in his arms. )

[story] the cherry tree and the boy

author: flamebyrd (flamebyrd)
email: flamebyrd [at] gmail.com

( Long ago, in a time before memory reaches, all history was stories and all stories were history. )