Grimdark Magazine Issue #4 mobi by Edited by Adrian Collins

Author:Edited by Adrian Collins
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Grimdark Magazine
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

10.

'My name is Cinderella,' I tell her, 'because I was born of you.'

11.

There is a beast in my royal mirror. Its fangs are pointed and its eyes glow red. I run fingernails down my cheeks and the lines are pink, like the stain upon my lips. The beast smiles with a thousand knives. My pulse throbs, thick and slow, within my neck. I break the glass, but still the beast survives.

The fairy stands by my window, dressed in the soft flesh of a child. 'Come closer,' I tell her, and she approaches with tentative eyes.

'Are you well?' she asks.

'I am falling,' I say.

I sit upon my bed, and cradle her small head within my lap. Her hands are tiny and her fingers are pointed. She watches me and I can feel my skin peeling beneath her gaze. I shed it like a snake, and leave myself behind.

'You are too thin,' she says. 'Are you eating?'

'It all tastes like dust now,' I reply.

My breasts are shrinking. They fade and fold into my chest, but still he palms them, and still his weight presses heavy upon the dip of my stomach and the bones of my ribs.

'So beautiful, so delicate, so fragile,' is forever his panting refrain.

I lie, naked, the glass slippers upon my feet, and he kisses my lips and devours my soul.

'I love you,' he says, and the words stretch and become bars for the walls of my cage. 'I love you. You are beautiful. I love you. You are mine.'

I understand love now. Love is possession. I want to be free.

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