The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

Tags: stories storytelling study folklore fairytales tales human-endeavor



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Once upon a time, Isola Wilde was watching late-night television with her eldest brother, Alejandro, when Channel 12 broadcast a live suicide.

Allyse Near

Tags: once-upon-a-time fairytales opening-line



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Y justo cuando el príncipe apareció, ella dejó de creer en los cuentos.

Patty Webber

Tags: prince fairytales



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This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all.

George Huang

Tags: life love lies hope fairytales good-guys



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There was something familiar but strange about her - Snow White with a suntan. Cinderella in biker boots. Tough and delicate and magical and real all at once.

Allyse Near

Tags: girls snow-white fairytales cinderella



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Well, sorry pet, I don't want to be fixed. Whatever your little schoolgirl brain told you about men is absurdly wrong. This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel-in-distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

C.J. Roberts

Tags: disillusionment love happy-endings fairytales



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Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,
Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,
In the darkest hours before the dawn,
When witches roam and demons spawn,
And children die with spirit gone,
Magicked away in the gloaming.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: poetry dark fantasy magic fairytales



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Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching
darkness of the universe.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: life philosophy time death fairytales



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She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her “Snow.

Nenia Campbell

Tags: fantasy snow-white sci-fi fairytales retellings



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Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is.

Mandy Hale

Tags: happiness happy prince happy-endings fairytales single self-love happily-ever-after prince-charming loving-yourself single-life being-single the-single-woman single-woman happily-single standing-alone write-your-own-fairytale



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