Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #9 by Iulian Ionescu

Author:Iulian Ionescu [Ionescu, Iulian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC028000, FIC009000, FIC015000, FIC003000, dark fantasy, fantasy, fantasy magazine, magazine, novelette, science fiction, science fiction magazine, short stories, short story
ISBN: 978-0-9916619-8-5
Publisher: Fantasy Scroll Press, LLC
Published: 2015-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

A stupid person once said: all good things must come to an end. For Maggie, it started with the Quarks. Then it spread to the Snickets and the gibbering gibbons, as The Worldish awkwardly suggested it needed space. The Lumpkins ejected her from their hopscotch league and the Jolly Gopher of Grindlehook actually looked at her and groused. No longer welcome at the picture book court, Maggie set out to find some answers. She swam against the steady current of the Dandelion Stream without the aid of the viscount or his swans. She sprinted past the Garden of Sweet Tea and Crisps without stopping for a cup of the former. Alone, and on foot, she crested the Harrowdown Hills and arrived at the vineyard of suckers.

Rumple Lumpkin regarded Maggie coolly. He must've gotten the memo.

"Look at me, Rumple."

"This one is looking, Ms. Maggie."

"I want you to tell me what's going on."

"This one hasn't a clue what it is you might mean."

"Why is everyone acting so oddly around me?"

Twittering nervously, Rumple went back about his work. "This one really shouldn't say… "

"Rumple." Maggie grabbed the little Lumpkin by his tube sock ears and forced him to stop working and face her. "Why was I banished from the Pajama King's court?"

"Maybe it's time for you to go home."

"Maybe it's time for me to what?" Maggie bared her teeth.

Rumple's eyes flitted from side to side. "The Worldish has rules, Ms. Maggie. The Boneless Emperor enforces them with his Band of Belligerent Boys."

"Of all the ridiculous—" Maggie anchored her hands on her hips. "I haven't broken any rules."

"Oh yes you have," said Rumple, his eyes drifting down to her chest.

At first Maggie felt bashful, then she got pissed. "This will not stand, Rumple Lumpkin."

"Lot of good you can do about it, Ms. Maggie."

"How long has this been going on?"

Rumple Lumpkin shrugged. "At least a generation of generations."

"Heavens, think of all the poor young women. There must be thousands of them!"

"Yes, Ms. Maggie. Even more than you know."

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