Never After: Thirteen Twists on Familiar Tales

Marie` Brennan

Feb 2019 · Swan Tower

About this ebook

Forget perfect princesses, handsome princes, and "happily ever after." In this collection of thirteen flash-length fairy tale retellings, award-winning author Marie Brennan introduces you to a world of manipulative mirrors, treacherous pigs, and candy houses that will eat you right up. Each one is a subversive little gem, guaranteed to shock the Brothers Grimm.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

* "The Mirror's Tale"

* "The Kindness of Sisters"

* "Conversation with a Wolf"* "Gold"

* "A Smile, a Laugh"

* "Nesu-a"

* "The Princess and the . . ."

* "One Last Prize"

* "The Fall of the Fortress of Brick"

* "Many Faces"

* "Every Moment, I Dream of Sleep"

* "Just Right"

* "And Everything Nice"

* Afterword

About the author

Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for inspiration. She has recently misapplied her professors' hard work to the short novel DRIFTWOOD and TURNING DARKNESS INTO LIGHT, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. The first book of that series, A NATURAL HISTORY OF DRAGONS, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Her other works include the Doppelganger duology, the urban fantasy Wilders series, the Onyx Court historical fantasies, the Varekai novellas, and nearly sixty short stories, as well as the New Worlds series of worldbuilding guides. Together with Alyc Helms as M.A. Carrick, she is the author of the upcoming Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy, beginning with THE MASK OF MIRRORS in January 2021. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon at www.patreon.com/swan_tower.