"Torn" - A New Fairy Tale Inspired Short Story for Halloween (by me)

UPDATE 1/3/12:

Torn is no longer available to read at Supernatural Fairy Tales. Instead I have added it to Once Upon A Blog on it's own dedicated (and hopefully permanent) page. 

(See the tabs under the header of click HERE.)

Dorlana Vann of the wonderful Supernatural Fairy Tales site has posted my new short story "Torn", especially for your Halloween reading pleasure.

The genre for this one is dark fantasy and definitely verges on the creepy but isn't horror. (If you're in the mood for Halloween humor, Dorlana's story "Holiday" - also posted there - fits the bill beautifully.)

"Torn" is not a retelling like "Cages" is, but was instead inspired by a fairy tale I've loved since I was a girl. The fairy tale is "The Marsh King's Daughter" by Hans Christian Andersen. You can read the original HERE.

The only problem with "The Marsh King's Daughter" is I never liked the heavy religious stuff that it digresses into at one point before gaining back it's fairy tale form and resolving. It may be one of the reasons I rarely see it tackled. The topic of duality HCA's tale explores, however, I find fascinating - plus it has some awesome fairy tale characters and situations that are begging for more 'screen time'.

You can go read my short story
HERE.

My heartfelt thanks to my wonderful @mudsock for creating the awesome illustration at the head of this post for me. I love it and think it suits the story perfectly. (He's all kinds of awesome - go check him out on Twitter and/or Facebook - you'll soon see what I mean.)

Enjoy - and Happy Halloween!

CAGES PDF Just Released - FREE Download

It's here!

The whole story of

"Cages
A Steampunk Retelling of Grimm's Jorinde & Joringel
In V parts with Epilogue"

is now available for
FREE download & distribution

HERE
at the Supernatural Fairy Tales website.

Please note: if, when you click on the cover image at Supernatural Fairy Tales, a blank page opens and no document appears or downloads, try returning to the site and 'right-clicking' (or holding down the CNTRL button, then clicking) on the cover image and selecting 'SAVE LINK AS'. It should bring up a box with 'cages.pdf' already typed in the SAVE AS area. Click SAVE and it will download automatically after that. If you're still having problems accessing it, email me at fairytalenews AT gmail DOT com and I'll send it directly to you as soon as I see your mail.

Please feel free to download, copy and distribute the PDF to anyone you think will enjoy it.

[If you have any questions about the story, the short series podcast or the PDF, please don't hesitate to email me at fairytalenews AT gmail DOT com]