Hello my dear readers
This week I have a short story in which I played around with a popular and ancient fairy tale.
In our homeschooling journey, we read a lot of fantastical and imaginative books. Two volumes were the Blue Fairy book and the Red Fairy book. Our bookcovers are completely boring compared to these though!
Since I love reading children’s books, these 2 books are definitely on my TBR pile again.
I digress!!
One of the fairy tales that get retold more than any one of the other stories are Beauty and the Beast. We get these in animations, in period dramas, in horrors, in contemporary fiction, modern fiction and we can go on and on.
So naturally, I wanted to try my version.
That’s how Beauty and the Vampire was born.
Mind you, I am not a very good fanfiction writer. My add-ons are quite ridiculous!
You also get it, there is a vampire in this story. I’m very attracted to the dark side of the fairy tales. I wasn’t surprised when I learned that Aesop’s Fables, Mother Goose and the famous Grimm tales were actually much much darker than the good feeling, good-overcomes-bad tropes of the modern retellings.
This was just a fooling around with words. Definitely not my best. And now rereading it, I cringe but I also appreciate the spirit with which I attempted this. There is a fairy tale retelling in the future though And that I look forward to a lot.
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That’s it for now.
Thank you for reading.
Sending love from my house to yours.
Anne
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