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    Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales
    Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales
    Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales
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    Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales

    By Charlotte Henley Babb

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    Fairy Godmother Maven Morrigan has her own way of making the happily ever after come true. These stories take on The Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin and Beauty and the Beast.
    * Bubba and the Beast: Trolls need love too, but can Maven get back from Mundane in time to grant Grizelda's wish?
    * Mavenstiltskin: The view from the other side of the gender fence is not as green as Maven expects.
    * Fairy Frogmother: Maven gets her just desserts when a rogue fairy godmother's spell turns her into a frog.

    Three fractured fairy tales to bring you a smile.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharlotte Henley Babb
    Release dateJul 11, 2018
    ISBN9780463607084
    Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales
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    Charlotte Henley Babb

    Charlotte Henley Babb has been writing since she was four, making up stories about fairies in the back yard and aliens in the forest. She has studied the folk stories of many cultures and wonders what happened to ours.She asks where the stories are for people over 20 who have survived marriage, divorce, child-raising, education, bankruptcy, and widowhood. She believes that the initiation of adolescence is only the first cut, not the deepest, and she continues to explore the second half of life for wisdom, thrills and the heck of it.She has taught writing for Greenville Technical College and the University of Phoenix. She's exploring the realm of steampunk and creative artificing.Apart from that, she hangs out in the Twilight Lounge, a nexus between the four dimensions of Faery, Mundane, Cyberspace and the HyperDrome.Charlotte is the author of an adult fantasy novel, Maven Fairy Godmother, released March 2012, which won a Sharp Write Book award for Fantasy in 2014, and Best Novel for Adults in the South Carolina Media Women Communications Contest in 2014. She has several fantasy short stories collected in Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales and PumpkinEater, as well as southern fiction in Walking Off Heaven's Shore, Just a Smidgen of Magic, and In the Still Midwinter. She wrote several stories in Port Nowhere, a shared world science fiction anthology, and random stories and articles. She presented "Fairy Tales and the Industrial Revolution" at Upstate Steampunk Con 2011, and has appeared on panel discussions at Dragon*Con 2011, ConCarolinas 2012 and 2015, Fairie Escape Atlanta 2012, and LibertyCon 2012. She presented at ConJuration in Atlanta in 2015. She has also presented at the Southeastern Writers Association annual conference.She loves fractured fairy tales for grownups and writes them for your enjoyment. Never miss a new release. Sign up for her mailing list at http://bit.ly/RedStilletos

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      Maven's Fractured Fairy Tales - Charlotte Henley Babb

      Maven's

      Fractured

      Fairy Tales

      By

      Charlotte Henley Babb

      Copyright © 2012 Charlotte Henley Babb

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN-13: 978-1478101154

      Second Edition: June 2018

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Author.

      Other books by Charlotte Henley Babb

      Maven Fairy Godmother: Through the Veil

      PumpkinEater

      Just a Smidgen of Magic

      Walking Off Heaven's Shore

      In the Still Midwinter

      Dedication

      For all the story tellers everywhere

      empowering everyone who listens.

      Contents

      Bubba and the Beast

      MavenStiltskin

      Fairy Frogmother

      About the Author

      Excerpt of Maven Fairy Godmother: Through the Veil

      Other Story Collections

      Bubba & the Beast

      Off-duty in the Twilight Lounge, Maven Morrigan, Fairy Godmother, listened for those heartfelt words: I wish while her best friend, Grizelda the Troll, grumbled about the under-the-bridge trade. Maven was glad to hear nothing. It had been a long day, and she'd turned several people into frogs out of sheer boredom.

      The Twilight caters to folk looking for a chance for a change; the dress code requires an appropriate contrast of disguised persona to person. A good mix was present tonight—a hero further down the bar wore hunchback, and an elf in the corner had donned dragon-skin. But one undisguised patron lurked at the end of the bar staring at Maven, a frog prince who seemed vaguely familiar. He was ensorcelled, which must count as a magical persona here in the Twilight. Maybe he thought the midnight transformation would break the spell.

      It wouldn't.

      Maven shook her head. I’ve really got to lay off that frog spell. How many had she transformed this week? Her wings drooped under the garb of her Victorian evil stepmother persona, and her wand was heavy as half-life uranium: mostly lead but still radioactive. Maven took a swig of coffee that the Lounge made just for her—no beer in Faery—and focused again on Grizelda's woes. She didn't want to hurt Grizelda's feelings, but it was bedtime. She didn't even care about to seeing who was who at the midnight.

      Grizelda, in persona as a 7-foot tall nanny goat, was as sick of butting heads with billy goats as Maven was of making wannabees into princesses, but the stories win out in the end. Grizelda ate from a tray of random trash, and held an earthen mug of tea in a cloven hoof.

      What you need is a vacation, Griz said. Get away from the grind for a while.

      Thanks, but no thanks. Maven had met Griz during her first week on the job—a near-death experience. Besides, where would I go? This is Faery, and I don’t think you can get to Paradise from here. I've spent too much time in Mundane to go back there.

      Hang out under the bridge with me. Grizelda said. Eat a goat or two, maybe ask a riddle. She ate a couple of tin cans off the appetizer tray.

      You could go around making magic for the pure in heart, Maven told her, smiling less than sweetly.

      Pass me the insulin. Grizelda slurped tea and ate another tin can. Trolls are ravenous; it makes for short relationships. I could grant a few wishes. A sparkle here, a pumpkin there. Nothing to it. She swizzled her hoof as if it were a wand, leaving a bit of sparkle like a jet trail. Not like arguing with a goat. I don’t even like goat--doesn’t taste nearly enough like chicken.

      Wish-granting’s not that easy, Maven, told her. Assess the situation, figure the appropriate limits, and then metamorphose the results.

      Griz bleated, obviously unimpressed. You could just eat them and that would solve everything. Less messy than frogs.

      Most of them would be better off with frogs. Maven held her coffee cup up to her lip, but she didn't drink. Real ones.

      Both kinds around here lately. Grizelda nodded at the frog at the other end of the bar. I bet Fiona likes that. Try turning them into trolls. I’d like some company.

      You wish! She drained the coffee, and then raised her glass to the Owl who stood in for Belle, the barkeep. Maven's boss had been less than forgiving about her turning offending princes and other layabouts into amphibians.

      The Owl mournfully shook its head. Definitely time to go back to

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