White as Bone: A Dark Fairy Tale Retelling
By Simone Leigh
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White as Snow?
When you are innocent but cursed, every hand is raised against you.
Adult Fairy Tale Retelling
Some mild sexual content
Approx 5,000 words
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White as Bone - Simone Leigh
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White as Bone
Her skin like snow,
Her hair like night,
Her lips blood red,
Her name, Snow White.
In those times, long ago, when the Earth was yet flat, before the great convulsion of the gods, there was a Queen, an enchantress.
She was great, and powerful, yet her sorceries and wild magics left her barren, and for all her wickedness, she yearned for a child.
She called, imploring that one of the great Dark Lords might come, to give her the child she craved. And she was heard....
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The Old Queen
I call on the Dark Lords, the Four, entreating them, begging for the babe I yearn for. For long years I have served them, the greatest of their kind. May I not now ask somewhat in return?
I plead, beseeching them for a child.
Be careful what you wish for....
And, at length, One answers....
There is a congealing of the darkness, a gathering of the mist. Evolving into the air before me, a pattern woven into the tapestry of the dark, he regards me with dispassionate curiosity.
Am I a curiosity? A mortal who calls on such as he for aid?
He is tall, my Dark Lord, and beautiful. His features pale and flawless; sable haired; and.... his eyes.... his eyes are voids into the abyss. There is no cruelty there; only a pitiless disregard....
He strokes my face, his fingers cool, and as his mouth opens over mine, his lips are cold.
He takes me, his flesh entering mine, and