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Red Shoes

Who cares what "good Christian people" say? We know what we mean to Karen. Did you know that in the beginning, the poor girl had no shoes at all? That’s right. She went barefoot or wore old wooden clumpers that chafed her instep until her feet bled. The old...

Wounded Lion

Themes: Sacrifice | Suffering | Trauma

In my human form I am not as vulnerable as I am in my animal form. When I go out in the morning as a lion, I get wounded. The attacks have become more serious, and now this wound is too deep to be healed. I must not forget that my injuries have been tended before, and...

Surviving Sister

Themes: Recovery | Remembrance | Trauma

Now that I have come into the forbidden room, I see what the wizard Fitcher has done with my sisters. They are lying in a basin, cruelly murdered and cut into pieces. I will not to succumb to the horror. I will see them whole. Start somewhere. Anywhere. I drop to my...

Briar Rose in the Tower

Themes: Betrayal | Trauma | Vulnerability | Wonder

On my fifteenth birthday, the king and the queen were not at home. They had left me in the castle, quite alone! I ran round to look into all sorts of places that had been forbidden to me. I looked into bed-chambers and rooms. I peered into closets and under...

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