The Nymph and the Goblin E-Book

Carralee Byrd

• Herausgeber: Carralee Byrd
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

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 DARK fantasy story inspired by the fairy tales "Beauty and the Beast" and "Donkeyskin".

Leseprobe

TORN-UP FAIRY TALE #1

The Nymph

and the Goblin

NOT “The Beauty and the Beast”

CARRALEE BYRD

EPUB Edition

Copyright 2012

All Rights Reserved

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 dark fantasy novelette of about 11,600 words, or about 40 minutes of reading for the average reader. Not recommended for children.)

This is a work of fiction. People, places, and events are made up; any that aren’t made up have all been processed through the shredder of the author’s imagination, and therefore bear only superficial resemblance to their originals, at best.

This work is licensed in electronic format for your personal enjoyment only. That means no, you may not share this e-book by e-mail or on file-sharing sites, nor may you resell this story without authorization. Buy your friends their own copies, please. If the copy you’re reading wasn’t bought for your use specifically, please respect the author and delete or pay for the e-book. Thanks!

Third Edition, with an excerpt from the sequel

Cover Designed by Misti Wolanski

Almost Heaven NF font by Nick Curtis

Bellwether Antique NF font by Nick Curtis

Photo © CAstock on DeviantArt

Picture frame photo © Mac Pale (pale) on Stock.xchng

First Edition, released in 2012, featured a cover drawn by Elizabeth Leino of Laüstic Press.

Second Edition, released in early 2013, had the cover and formatting revised in March 2014.

Third Edition, released in May 2014, had an excerpt added from the sequel.

  Table of Contents 

The Nymph and the Goblin

- Rosie

- Candra

- Beauty

- The Merchant

- About the Author

TORN-UP FAIRY TALE #1

The Nymph and the Goblin

NOT “The Beauty and the Beast”

  Rosie 

ONCEUPONATIME, AMERCHANTHAD three daughters, and none of them with the same mother.

Rather, the merchant had two daughters and a granddaughter, but the daughters weren’t married—and what the merchant sold were ale and rights to his younger daughter’s bed, which was how that daughter had the baby to begin with.

The elder daughter, born Briar, had realized early what awaited her if she stayed pretty and taken a knife to her face before she had her first moontime. Her father kept Briar as a maid in his tavern. He called her his Rosie and enjoyed men’s revulsion when they realized what a maimed little thing his Rosie was.

He learned from his Rosie-Briar, and he kept Belladonna both trapped in her room and drugged enough that she couldn’t protest her nightly visitors. The men he sent into her weren’t interested in her for her conversation, anyway. They called her their Beauty, and Belladonna in her drugged haze couldn’t correct them even had she cared to.

Sometimes a good man would hear about Beauty, object, and go to the authorities, only to learn that the magistrate liked his pleasures, too. As for Rosie—well, gossip called her so wicked that she had seduced her father and borne her baby sister.