📚 Short Stories From The Immortal Quill – Issue #13
Buckle your tiaras, darling, because it’s about to get messy in the most immortal way possible. Here we go:
Alice, What the Actual Tea Are You Doing Here?!
It was supposed to be a quiet morning in the lounge of the Immortal Quill Tower. Just a little tea, some light spellwork, maybe a dramatic tale or two.
But then Alice showed up. Again.
Sashaying in with her bottomless teacup, her ridiculous hat, and a grin like she’d just set a kingdom on fire for fun.
Everyone froze.
“Um. Excuse me,” Red said, tossing a blood-red apple up and down like a warning sign. “Aren’t you supposed to be over at the Immortal Gazette?”
Snow’s white brows shot up. “Or better yet - your own Mad Tea Party where you traumatize your guests with suspicious biscuits and fourth-wall shenanigans?”
Alice simply smiled, sat down, and poured herself some very extra moonberry elixir. “Darlings, don’t mind me. I’m just… observing.”
“OBSERVING?!” Tink practically screamed, wings flaring with enough rage to light a city block. “Are you spying? Is this a hostile tea takeover?! Because I knew you couldn’t be trusted with that damn Quill!”
Goldi whispered loudly to Rapunzel, “I always thought she was sus. You see the way she narrates people’s lives like she’s above the story? Who does that?”
Rapunzel sipped her tea. “She literally writes herself into the story sometimes.”
“Exactly!” Tink snapped. “She thinks she’s some kind of Mad Queen! With a trademarked title and everything!”
Alice reclined dramatically and picked up the Quill. “Well, I am the Mad Tea Mistress. And you invited me here.”
“We did NOT,” Red barked.
“Actually…” Wendy chimed in, holding a tray of scones she clearly hoped would keep her out of it, “I might’ve mentioned her when I dropped by…”
Everyone turned slowly to stare at her.
“WHY. IS. WENDY. BACK.” Tink shouted. “You were a guest! One-time tea pass! No unlimited refills!”
Wendy blinked. “I thought we were bonding last time?”
Tink’s voice went full banshee. “We were NOT bonding! You made friends with Pan again. TRAITOR.”
Snow crossed her arms. “You two need couples therapy. Not a throne room.”
Red was on her feet now, “Okay, but back to Alice - are we seriously letting her just be here like she’s one of us?”
Cinderella piped up, “She does technically qualify. She’s immortal. She’s got her own brand. And she makes good tea…”
Tink shot daggers at her. “You would side with chaos.”
Alice finally stood, brushing imaginary crumbs off her tea-stained gothic corset.
“Ladies,” she said with the poise of a Queen who once dined with the Jabberwock. “You may not want me here - but you need me. This story? Needs a spark. A bit of wild. A twist of madness.”
“You mean sabotage,” Snow muttered.
“Oh, darling, I mean plot progression.”
Wendy ducked behind Rapunzel as Tink charged forward, a fireball forming in her hand and an angry fae battle cry on her lips.
Alice raised her teacup.
And the chandelier above shattered.
“Oops,” she said. “Looks like the Quill agrees with me.”
World of 4EverMore | Bloodthorn Publishing | Short Stories
🩸✨ A Bloodthorn Publishing™ Original
From the twistedly magical minds of the Immortal Quill™ Storytellers, welcome to the World of 4EverMore™ - where fractured fairytales wear combat boots, myths misbehave, tea spills itself, and chaos is couture. ☕️
Featuring your immortally iconic favorites:
• Goldilocks (paranoid and perfect)
• CindaSpy™ (that’s Cinderella with a security clearance)
• Red (badass in boots)
• Snow (soft goth apple queen)
• Dorothy (click it and rip it)
• Beauty (rose-stem sharp)
• Wendy (shadow-slick rebel)
• Alice – Queen of Ink & Lore™ herself
• Loki (divine trickster snack, taken 😘)
• Ivy (Rumple’s sister, lethal in Louboutins)
• and Rumplestiltskin (unhinged, unmatched, unstoppable)
✨ Guest appearances may include sentient teacups, tragic ballgowns, questionable prophecy scrolls, and one flirty, possibly dangerous Elven stranger...
🪄 Storytime just got a whole lot more immortal.
Bloodthorn Publishing™ • The Immortal Quill™ • World of 4EverMore™ Universe 💋🔥
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