Not A Fairy Tale

as promised, her is a snippet from my Beauty and the Beast inspired story. It's simply the introduction, but I'm sort of in love with it anyway. I don't know if anyone cares, but whatever.

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In all good fairy tales there is a castle. And there is one in this story as well. It sits right past the horizon where it cannot be seen. Its stone walls are old and covered in grasping vines. The grounds too are overrun with thorns and on its borders there sit a few unwary roses. The windows are dark, for the castle does not disclose its secrets.
In all decent fairy tales there is a girl, a girl who is beautiful and intelligent, kind and unwittingly brave. And there is always a man, a prince, a hero. In any good and lovely fairy tale there is a man and a girl and there is generally a rose, a rose to represent love.
But this is not a fairy tale. The rose is nothing but a dying plant covered in thorns, sinister and shadowed. And there is no man. Only a beast.
***
There was a time once so very long ago that no one can really remember it, not even the oldest and most ancient textbooks. And in that time there were people who could just barely recall a time when a castle stood on the horizon. But even then they didn't know the tale.
It is far too old a time that I speak of, too long ago for any scholar or historian to teach. But that time existed and the castle existed. Every part of the tale is as true as memory and as false as lies. It is neither here nor there and it most certainly did not happen once upon a time.
Every good fairy tale begins with that most familiar of fairy tale phrases. It is the phrase that any fine fairy tale must being with, just as any respectable fairy tale must end with another familiar three word phrase. But this is not a good fairy tale. It is not a fairy tale at all.
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It obviously needs a little work, but I still like it.

Marbles

So guess who is the most awesomesaucetastic blogger ever to blog the bloggernet? Me? No, sorry. Thank you ever so much though. The correct answer is shadowreviewer (shadowreviewer.blogspot.com). Shadowreviewer aka the new love of my life decided to link to two of my fanfictions in an upcoming blog post. Hopefully, she doesn't change her mind because then I'll look like an idiot. Anyway, I think that people who recognize other people deserve to be recognized back, so there you go.
I guess I should gather up my courage and tell you my fanfiction address. *Gulp* I'm ascared.
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1714118/Of_Winged_Poets

I also have a Fiction Press and since I'm baring me soul I'll give that too.
http://www.fictionpress.com/u/638141/Of_Winged_Poets
UPDATE: http://figment.com/users/174496-S-E-Cates

I also have facebook and zinch and all manner of other things, but let's just leave those be for now.

I was trying to find some decent piece of writing to end this with, but I've recently moved to a new state and haven't written in a long time. I promise updates on my blog and my fanfiction and maybe my fictionpress in the near future.

P.S. Spell check had a party with this one (I mean "awesomesaucetastic"? Really? I must be losing my marbles, or maybe just my mind since I never understood how to play marbles in the first place. But maybe that's why I lost them to begin with.)