It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from [...]
Dawn light broke through the reaching, inky fingers of the trees. Though summer was barely waning, the forest stood denuded of its leaves, as it always had. As it always would. The villagers had long stopped questioning why their wood did not bud and bloom and turn with the seasons. They knew it still lived, [...]
When she was a little girl, her mother told her stories of dragons who lay hidden in deep caves guarding mounds of treasure. One ordinary Tuesday, she set off to find one. It did not take long, for her mother had taught her well what to look for, and she soon found a crack in [...]
Thrive In Chaos 