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

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

Here’s one of my stories for you to read

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.