Torn-Up Fairy Tales

Once upon a time, a merchant had three daughters, and none of them with the same mother—rather, he had two daughters and a granddaughter, and all three hated and feared him.

(A novelette of about 11,600 words—about 40 minutes, for the average reader.)

Warning: Contains mature themes related to those found in the "Donkeyskin" folktale.

Keywords: dark fantasy, fairy tale, fae, novelette, folktale, female protagonist, beauty and the beast, retelling, new adult