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Fairytales Gone Wild

by Agatha Splint

Ahhh, dear listener, let me untangle the yarn and tell you what my stories are, and what kind of odd shoes they like to wear.My tales are retired fairytales—the ones you thought ended happily ever after, but who have grown old, grumbly, and gloriously peculiar. Imagine:Familiar faces grown wrinkled and witty — Cinderella with a hip replacement trying to waltz at the palace reunion, or Jack’s beanstalk groaning about its arthritis.Everyday coziness spliced with nonsense — teapots that sigh, biscuits that unionize, kettles with stage fright.Old villains and heroes in knitting circles — The Big Bad Wolf running a library, dwarfs arguing over crossword puzzles, witches gossiping over cod-liver oil.Mysteries that unravel sideways — A slipper that squeaks, a goblin lost in the Dewey Decimal System, a frog that refuses to turn back into a prince.And always, a ripple of the unreal — w