The Real Folktale Blues by Random Jordan

Author:Random Jordan [Jordan, Random]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Adventure, Lesbian, cinderella, fairy tale, ever after, red riding hood, folktales myths, fairytale fantasy, folktales fairy tales, fairytale adventure, bluebeard, fairytale assassin, faerie tales, fairytale retelling, fairytale adaptations, fairytale romance, fairytale humour, fairytale fantasy children fantasy fiction books magic powers nature, folktales and fables
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Cinderella’s Tale

Written by Ashe Puttel

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Cinderella’s Tale

It all started with a shoe. Or shoes I should say. You asked me about them while I collected supplies for the dinner later that day in the open market. It surprised me because no one ever bothered to pay attention to me unless they thought I was going to steal something. They all just saw me as some little girl in rags, but I could tell by the way you asked about my broken and torn shoes that you actually cared.

I wasn’t sure why. I was just a nobody.

But you changed all that.

I swear you had followed me home like a lost little puppy, since you came appearing through my window when the rest of my family was out the next day. You revealed your wings and told me you had come to help me help myself. I had heard the stories of faerie godmothers but they were such mythical kinds of things that I never thought they could be real. A dragon might as well have stepped in my father’s home for the amount of shock I had felt in that situation.

You told me a ball was being held tonight and that I should go, but you gave me the choice to go or not, like I wouldn’t want to see the most beautiful dances I had imagined so often. I realize now why you had given me the choice at the time. I wish I had chosen different, I’m not sure what though.

You started with my shoes. Making them the most gorgeous blue I’d ever seen and made of a glass that hurt my feet as they sat in them. I wanted to ask you to change them as I liked green more and I knew I wouldn’t be able to walk well in those heels but I stayed silent and afraid.

You tapped my body in various places which made me squeak and blush but I suddenly had a blue dress I could have dreamed of, if I was a princess. I touched my head to find a halo of branches weaved in my hair like a crown. Had you known of my love of nature at that time?

Once done, you led me by my hand out to the front yard where you produced a carriage to take me away. A carriage to match all my blues, at least you were being sensitive about my heels. You must have noticed how I stumbled a few times on the way out of the house, even though I tried to hide it.

As you helped me up the steps to the carriage and settled me in the seat you told me you would be there for me, but that I wouldn’t recognize you. You leaned in the cab, and I watched the tresses of crimson hair fall along your neck as you tapped the heels and they became slippers with some padding in them.

You looked up to me and I glanced away, embarrassed I had been staring at you, though I hadn’t been sure why at the time.

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