Halfway to Fairyland

  (In preparation for the release of my Beauty and the Beast retelling, To Be Loved, I will be re-sharing old Beauty and the Beast posts. So...

My favorite story to write is always the story I'm currently writing. But my favorite story to read and to watch and to think about is a...

  (In preparation for the release of my Beauty and the Beast retelling, To Be Loved, I will be re-sharing old Beauty and the Beast posts. So...

  In the dappled light of the forest, nestled between the roots of her favorite tree, Mira wept. She had not, these last few days. She had n...

 We’re still in the Yellow Fairy Book, and this is an Estonian story, collected by a Dr. Friedrich Kreutzwald, whose work was then translate...

 From the Grimms, although I don’t recognize it, by way of the Yellow Fairy Book. A prince is cursed to sit in a large iron stove in the woo...

 Have you recently confessed your undying love to a monstrous figure of some sort? Did he then transform into an attractive human man? Is he...