Never Ever After: Three Short Stories
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Three previously published fantasy short stories by Ruth Nestvold.
"A Serca Tale" is a retelling of the old Irish legend "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne."
"King Orfeigh": A young Irish king has lost his wife to the king of Faerie. Is there any way he can win her back?
"Happily Ever Awhile": Everyone knows the story of the filthy girl who married the prince by not bleeding into a glass slipper. But what happened to Ellie after the happy ending?
Never Ever After is a short story collection of approximately 9000 words.
"Ruth Nestvold's source tale for 'Happily Ever Awhile' is 'Cinderella,' yet her story could serve just as well as the 'what happened next' version of any fairy tale where the original ending was 'And they lived happily ever after.' Because the first thing we learn from the re-told tales is how this business of living happily ever after isn't all it was cracked up to be. From the title, the reader might think that the question at the heart of this story is how long true happiness can last, but in fact, it proves to be the nature of happiness: how to know when you've found it, how to keep hold of it, how not to piss it away."
-- Lois Tilton, Tangent Online
Ruth Nestvold
A former assistant professor of English in the picturesque town of Freiburg on the edge of the Black Forest, Ruth Nestvold has given up theory for imagination. The university career has been replaced by a small software localization business, and the Black Forest by the parrots of Bad Cannstatt, where she lives with her fantasy, her family, her books and no cats in a house with a turret. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov's, F&SF, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Scifiction, and Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction. Her fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel Flamme und Harfe appeared in translation with the German imprint of Random House, Penhaligon, in 2009 and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As this is a book of short stories, I will try to say something about each story... The first story, A Serca Tale, I found myself thinking that everything that needed to happen to move the plot along happened because of some kind of spell. I was upset that this would be the thing to push the plot along. There could have been more to the story of a woman trying to get out of an arranged marriage, but I felt more like this was just the quick throwing together of two people. There was some good story in it, I just wasn't captivated.The second story, King Orfeigh was very interesting to me. I found it touching that a man would do all he could to find the woman he loved, that he would give up everything in order to be with her again. The journey of how he does this, and why, is the interesting part, so I won't reveal it.Happily Ever Awhile is literally a Cinderella story, but it is honest and real. What happens after the wedding? How does family and the court and happiness blend together into something that is manageable and all within reach? It's both heartwarming and a heart breaker, which isn't as unbalanced as it sounds.