Tag: fairytales retold

Inventing our stories: Telling it the way it should be, not the way it was

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This is a retelling of the old Romany version of Cinderella. In this one the young woman has a magical mossy coat instead of a fairy godmother. She also has a mother who has strange ideas about parenting and how to deal with men. But at its heart it's still the same old sexist nonsense.… Continue reading Inventing our stories: Telling it the way it should be, not the way it was

Re-imagining the tales they tell us: “Mumma fetch the axe.”

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I've been working on rewriting some old fairy tales. I've written my own versions of The Little Mermaid, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and I'm working on a pretty twisted version of Snow White. This is the latest one I'm re-imagining: Jack and the Beanstalk. I just read this old Ladybird version and came up… Continue reading Re-imagining the tales they tell us: “Mumma fetch the axe.”

Here’s one of my stories for you to read

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The witch tried to warn me. ‘If you walk in his world, each step will hurt you like treading on needles and you’ll lose your tongue.’ ‘But I love him,’ I replied.