Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
A.S. ByattTag: fairy-tales fairy-tales-for-adults
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.
J.R.R. TolkienTag: fairy-tales fairy-tales-for-adults
Drawing her closer he tucked his chin and lifted hers to meet his abysmal onyx eyes.
Jennifer SilverwoodTag: paranormal-romance fantasy-fiction fairy-tales-for-adults
Amie frowned. 'That’s what I can’t figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It’s sick, really.
Jennifer SilverwoodTag: fantasy-fiction chick-lit paranormal-romance-faeries fairy-tales-for-adults
Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic.
Curses bloomed.
Girls bit into sharp apples instead of birthday cake, chocked on the ruby-and-white slivers, and collapsed into enchanted sleep. Unconscious beneath cobweb canopies, frozen in coffins of glass, they waited for their princes to come. Or they tricked ogres, traded their voices for love, danced until their glass slippers cracked.
A prince would awaken, roused by the promise of true love, and find he had a witch to destroy. A heart to steal. To tear from the rib cage, where it was cushioned by bloody velvet, and deliver it to the queen who demanded the princess's death.
Girls became victims and heroines.
Boys became lovers and murderers.
And sometimes... they became both.
Tag: fantasy fairy-tales young-adult fairy-tales-for-adults
And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.
Emma DonoghueTag: love perceptions beauty-and-the-beast fairy-tales-for-adults
I’m glad she’s so smitten with her new huntsman boyfriend and all, but venison-wurst? Gag me with a harpsichord.
Nicki ElsonTag: humor fairy-tales fairy-tales-for-adults fairy-tales-retold
The candle’s flame washed her in a sensual bath of pulsating light, and Hans became entranced by the soft glow upon her skin.
Nicki ElsonTag: sensuality sexy fairy-tales-for-adults
I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.
Nicki ElsonTag: love true-love fate fairy-tales-for-adults
You are such a kind and caring man, and so sizzling hot and studly. Please, please don’t go nutty on me.
Nicki ElsonTag: humor romance sarcasm fairy-tales-for-adults
Pagina 1 di 2.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.