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    Fairytales Retold: Aschenputtel (Cinderella)
    Fairytales Retold: Aschenputtel (Cinderella)
    Fairytales Retold: Aschenputtel (Cinderella)
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    Fairytales Retold: Aschenputtel (Cinderella)

    By Avril Sabine

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    Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story.
    Word Count: 8040
    When Aschenputtel's mother dies, her father marries a woman with two daughters of her own. They treat her like a servant and she's left to sleep on the hearth amongst the ashes, her only friend a little bird that nests in the hazel tree, which grew at her mother's grave. When the king throws a feast to find his son a bride, Aschenputtel begs to attend. Her family answers her with taunts and impossible tasks. She's determined to complete them so she can attend the feast.
    This story was written by an Australian author using Australian spelling.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCracked Acorn Productions
    Release dateJun 6, 2016
    ISBN9781925131741
    Fairytales Retold: Aschenputtel (Cinderella)
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    Avril Sabine

    Avril Sabine is an Australian author who lives on acreage in South East Queensland. She writes mostly young adult and children’s speculative fiction, but has been known to dabble in other genres. She has been writing since she was a young child and wanted to be an author the moment she realised someone wrote the books she loved to read.Visit Avril's website to learn more about her and her many books. www.avrilsabine.com

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      Fairytales Retold - Avril Sabine

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      Fairytales Retold: Aschenputtel

      Avril Sabine

      Cracked Acorn Productions

      Fairytales Retold: Aschenputtel (Cinderella)

      Published by

      Cracked Acorn Productions

      PO Box 1365

      Gympie, Queensland 4570

      Australia

      978-1-925131-45-1 (Kindle)

      978-1-925131-74-1 (EPUB)

      Genre: Fairytales Retold Short Story

      Copyright 2015 © Avril Sabine

      Cover design by Caitlyn Petersen

      All rights reserved

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      Aschenputtel

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      About The Author

      Titles By Avril Sabine

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      Book Description

      When Aschenputtel’s mother dies, her father marries a woman with two daughters of her own. They treat her like a servant and she’s left to sleep on the hearth amongst the ashes, her only friend a little bird that nests in the hazel tree, which grew at her mother’s grave. When the king throws a feast to find his son a bride, Aschenputtel begs to attend. Her family answers her with taunts and impossible tasks. She’s determined to complete them so she can attend.

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      People have been telling stories since the beginning of time. Fairytales, folklore, myths and legends are among some of the stories that have been told over and over through the centuries. The basic story remains the same, but each storyteller adds their own style, sometimes adding something unique to the tale.

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      This story was written by an Australian author using Australian spelling.

      Aschenputtel

      Aschenputtel knelt in front of her mother’s grave where she was buried in the garden, pressing a hazel twig into the dirt. Tears ran down her face, splashed onto her hands and dampened the earth around the twig. She closed her eyes. It hadn’t meant anything to him. She’d felt certain when she’d asked Claude, her father, for the first twig that brushed against his hat after he turned for home, he would remember his first wife. She’d always asked him to bring her that first twig. When he’d returned from the fair, with the gifts they’d all asked for, the twig had seemed to mean no more to him than the fine clothes, pearls and diamonds her stepsisters had demanded.

      I miss you. Her words were a whisper, dragged from her even though she knew her stepsisters would torment her if they heard. Was her mother watching over her like she’d promised? If she was, how could she let that woman, her father had married, treat her the way she did? Like a servant, she was to fetch the water, light the fire, cook the meals and wash the clothes. She was not a servant. Her hands curled into fists. Yet when she complained, her father told her to behave and mind her manners and listen to her mother.

      That woman wasn’t her mother. No, her mother lay

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