So, this year's Bad Sex In Fiction Awards are out.

And we should all be thankful that this particular brand of hilarity doesn't make it onto Merry Fates!

Happy Turkey Day.

Lately, we merry fates have been talking about monsters. (Ok, we're always talking about monsters.) Specifically, we're curious about the attraction of teen ager girls (both real and fictional) to the undead. Maggie's put forward some theories about Stockholm Syndrome on her blog, for example. I'm trying to write an ongoing series about what ( Read more... )

I have a thing for bad guys. A lot of us do. It's why we like to write about vampires and homicidal faeries and demons.

In Pan's Labyrinth I met one of my favorite bad guys EVER: Captain Vidal ( Read more... )

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WARNING: IN WHICH TESSA TALKS ABOUT FAERIES AND SEX. A LOT OF SEX.

Few faerie stories fill me with as much glee as Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market." And I'll admit, it's an unholy academic sort of glee.

Here's a link full text of the poem, which I highly recommend reading. It's just that much fun. However, I'll offer a brief summary ( Read more... )

Welcome to this month's prompt! We hope you'll play along.

Rules:

- use the prompt that is under the cut to write a story, poem, bit of whatever-you-like. It doesn't have to be long; a tease is just fine!

- post your writing in your own journal with a link to merry_fates- comment to this post with a link to your journal so we can all enjoy what you ( Read more... )

Today the story we decided to discuss is the Egyptian myth of Osiris's death and subsequent resurrection by this wife, Isis.

I fished around on the internet for about twenty minutes and the best (no, really) that I could find as a quick summary without a lot of extraneous commentary and old-fashioned language was the wikipedia entry. If you aren' ( Read more... )

This is what you need to remember when dealing with crows:

One for sorrow, two for mirth,
Three for a wedding, four for a birth,
Five for silver, six for gold,
Seven for a secret not to be told.
Eight for heaven, nine for hell,
And ten for the devil's own self.We Merry Sisters chose the crow as our Internet Avatar (so to speak) for several reasons ( Read more... )

Prompt Thursday has rolled around again! And we'd like to invite you to join in our fun.

This week, all three sisters have used the same prompt to write our shorts: the popular fairy tale Snow White. Here's a link to the Grimm version: Little Snow WhiteAs always, please post your response in your own journal and link to it here in the comments ( Read more... )

To me, the most interesting aspect of the film Chocolat is the way in which human desire is externalized-a thing you can pick up and eat ( Read more... )