I wrote this to kelkyag's second prompt, "Something after Fairy Tale Aftermath," which it follows straight on from.

Sir Sander sur Helcrom did let go of Phillipus, so he could draw his sword. Phillipus took the opportunity to get out of the middle of a sword fight before the actual fighting started, backpedalling away from the visiting lord and his men ( Read more... )

The fairy sipped her tea and smiled in appreciation. “I must say that you do know to provide a genteel refreshment. I do like that in a person.” Her purple lips, lipstick surely, were making a perfectly friendly shape. “Now it was curses you wanted to know about, wasn’t it?”

“Yes, ma’am.” The hostess was a skinny girl with a multitude of large ( Read more... )

This series began after the fairy tale ended with the pig herder returning the enchanted prince to the palace and being offered his hand in marriage as a reward. I believe it then parted company with the script passed down to us by the Brothers Grimm. The stories in the series are:

After The Fairy Tale;

After The Fairy Tale II;

After The Fairy Tale ( Read more... )

I wrote this to kelkyag's prompt:

"Jonna. Does her family know where she's vanished to? Also, she's spending a lot of time learning from, well, everyone, but she's also coming into this situation with a lot of skills and knowledge already. Any chances to shine?"

Phillippus the Pigman, Phillippus Grieverhock as he was in the parish records, was not at ( Read more... )

I wrote this to kelkyag's third prompt.

Prince Rupert was teaching his wife how to dance.  He also taught her archery but he was the first to admit that the thing both sets of lessons had in common was that he got to put his arms around her and show her what to do.  Not so much with the archery, now she was getting the hang of it, but dancing practically ( Read more... )

I wrote this to kelkyag's second prompt.

“She could be a great deal worse,” said Lady Addew calmly as she sipped her tea.

“She is very pretty,” agreed Lord Addew, her husband.

“That’s not what I meant.”  She smiled at him in that way he recognised as meaning he’d completely missed the point.  “She knows a great deal of herb lore and she understands the ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's paid extension.  This follows on from After The Fairy Tale and After The Fairy Tale II.

Prince Rupert let her cry for a few moments then fished a handkerchief out of a pocket and pressed it into her hand.  “Here, use this,” he said kindly.  “Is being married to me so bad, Lady Jonna, that you’d rather return to you father’s manor ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's ninth prompt.  This follows After The Fairy Tale and is followed by After The Fairy Tale III.

They’d told her that she was going home with a new dress as a reward for helping Prince Terrence.  A new dress, a completely new dress, never worn by anyone else before was certainly worth bathing for.  Jonna could agree with that but ( Read more... )

I wrote this to aldersprig's fourth prompt.  This continues in After The Fairy Tale II and After The Fairy Tale III.

“No!”  The pig herder, a slip of the girl really, crossed her legs, folded her arms and glared back at the king from her chair.  “I will not marry some friggin’ prince just because I managed to unenchant him.  If he was any use he would either ( Read more... )