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    Legends of the Fairytale Kingdom Omnibus (Retold Fairy Tales)
    Legends of the Fairytale Kingdom Omnibus (Retold Fairy Tales)
    Legends of the Fairytale Kingdom Omnibus (Retold Fairy Tales)
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    Legends of the Fairytale Kingdom Omnibus (Retold Fairy Tales)

    By Anna Godiva

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    Narrated by a wide range of characters and spanning hundreds of years, this omnibus chronicles the history of the Fairytale Kingdom — from its auspicious start to its sudden fall — and the lives intertwined along the way.

    This omnibus includes all of Anna Godiva's fairy tale retellings thus far, both the optimistic and the tragic: "Skull White," "Thorn Wall," "Little Man," and others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWPF Press
    Release dateApr 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301002467
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      Legends of the Fairytale Kingdom Omnibus (Retold Fairy Tales) - Anna Godiva

      Legends of the Fairytale Kingdom Omnibus

      Copyright © 2013 Anna Godiva

      Published by WPF Press at Smashwords

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any print or electronic form without permission.

      All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      Table of Contents

      1. Skull White

      2. Thorn Wall

      3. Witch Hunt

      4. Little Man

      5. Last Dance

      6. Stepsister Plea

      7. The End

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      LEGENDS OF THE FAIRYTALE KINGDOM

      AN OMNIBUS

      by

      Anna Godiva

      1.

      Skull White

      The Fairytale Kingdom had never seen such a snowy winter. A blanket of white covered the ground from the Silver Mountains to the Lollipop Forest.

      And on the edge of that very Lollipop Forest, a thatch-roofed cottage stood half-buried in the snow. A woman lived inside: recently divorced; young but wiser than her years would indicate. Not wise in practical matters, but Wise in the ways of Faerie.

      Her husband had left her what she considered a gift; a child stirred inside her. As she worked at her spindle, she looked out the window—framed in black—and marveled at the whiteness of the landscape. Distracted, she cut herself; and a few drops of blood fell onto the wooden floor of the cottage.

      One of her fairy attendants flew in through the window to care for her; a young, inexperienced fairy named Honeysuckle. He had two bright yellow wings and a face as luminous as a paper lantern. What can I do to repair your injury? he asked.

      The woman looked at her surroundings. Let my daughter have a complexion white as the snow outside; cheeks as red as the blood I lost; and hair as black as this window frame.

      Honeysuckle weaved his Faerpowers; but being forgetful, blessed the child in the wrong way. Let her have bones as white as snow; eyes as red as blood; and a heart as black as that window frame.

      And a month later, Skull White was born.

      ~

      Seven difficult years passed.

      The Fairytale Kingdom has never been a place for the different, a physician said as he and Skull White’s mother watched the skeleton-girl chewing a dog’s bone.

      When the dog, Rufus, first entered the house and met Skull White, he had yelped and ran out the door, never to be seen again. But the toys remained. The girl was just as Honeysuckle made her: bright red eyes, a body of brilliant white bones, and a shriveled, still black heart inside her ribcage.

      I suggest you take her into the woods and leave her, the physician said. There is a saying I am fond of: ‘You must look out for Number One.’ You must serve yourself, first and foremost; that is what will make you happy.

      You’re right, said Skull White’s mother. I’m unhappy with her. She grimaced. May Honeysuckle perish in flame for what he did to me!

      And so, the next day, Skull White’s mother blindfolded her daughter and led her out in the middle of the lollipop forest. She left her and, as she went away, consoled herself with the fact that it was spring, now, and the snow had long since melted; and as long as Skull White found food she would survive.

      ~

      Some few days later, Dario—king of the Fairytale Kingdom—married Griselda, a princess of the Warlock Kingdom beyond the Silver Mountains. Griselda wore an elaborate, black-and-purple dress to her wedding. She was tall, somber-faced, and white as death. As the first few days of her marriage passed, the court began to mimic her; applying powder to their skin, the Fairytale Queen’s inner circle tried to mimic her whiteness. And soon it became a widespread fashion throughout the kingdom. Far away, on the edge of the Lollipop Forest, Skull White’s mother also applied powder according to this latest fad.

      One of Queen Griselda’s wedding gifts was a fairy-glass that could answer any questions she had. She set it in her room and asked:

      "Tell me, glass, tell me true!

      Of all the ladies of the land,

      Who is whitest, tell me, who?"

      The glass took the shape of a face; and it answered her:

      "Thou, queen, art white, and blinding to see,

      But Skull White is starker far than thee!"

      Queen Griselda gasped and staggered back in shock.

      But once the shock subsided, she sent out messages to the Grand Princes of all the Fairytale Cities. Then, in her throne room of alabaster, she summoned all her huntsmen: the men of the woods who spent their lives as expert trackers and survivalists.

      Search for Skull White. She will be easy to find, for the fairy-glass says she is whiter than me and there is no one else that meets that profile! Bring me her heart and tongue!

      She sent one tracker to the Sandy Desert; one tracker to the Wicked Wood; and one tracker—a tall, broad-shouldered man named Helm—to the Lollipop Forest.

      I.

      Skull White found the Lollipop Forest beautiful during the day; the sun sparkled against the sugar, and even though it was impossible to reach the great lollipops, it seemed like a place of plenty. She had no idea why her mother had left her here. Maybe it was a mistake. But on the outermost edges of the Lollipop Forest, there were white-furred squirrels; and she had managed to catch one. Now she gnawed at it, though it wasn’t as good as her mother’s roast venison. There weren’t many things in the world better than venison, especially raw.

      She took the last bite of the squirrel and threw the little scraps of flesh and bone that remained on the ground. She needed to go back to her mother. A wild place like the

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