📚 Short Stories From The Immortal Quill – Issue #15
Tangled Intentions & Trickster Distractions
Rapunzel cleared her throat, flipping her long, glistening golden braid over her shoulder like it was a microphone cord and she was about to drop the hottest spoken word set this side of the Veil.
“Well,” she began, batting her lashes and smiling straight at Alice, “I suppose I’ll begin with the most inspirational, elegant, soul-quakingly iconic storyteller among us…”
Snow immediately rolled her eyes. “Oh, gods no.”
Tink made gagging sounds behind a teacup.
Goldi snorted. “She’s totally buttering up the Mad Mistress.”
Alice raised one regal eyebrow but said nothing. She simply sipped her tea like it had secrets.
Rapunzel, completely undeterred, continued. “She was the Queen of Quill. The Empress of Ink. The Unhinged High Priestess of Tea. So phenomenal, in fact, that she - unlike the rest of us - got her own studio. Her own enchanted tea table. Her own segment in the Gazette - ”
“ - That she built herself, mind you,” Alice said smoothly, setting her teacup down with a meaningful clink. “With blood, ink, and a questionable amount of glitter glue.”
Rapunzel giggled and nodded. “Exactly! So majestic. So powerful. So… intimidatingly fabulous.”
“Oh my stars, someone cut her mic,” Red muttered, half-laughing.
Snow shouted, “SHE’S FLIRTING FOR FAVORS!”
Cinderella gasped, “I KNEW it!”
Alice smiled, ever so sly. “Oh, darlings. You flatter me. But let’s not pretend I can be swayed by compliments.” She tilted her head toward Rapunzel. “Although some people seem very invested in impressing me.”
Rapunzel's cheeks pinked. “What? No. I mean. Maybe. But also - yes.”
Alice stood, her skirts whispering like a rumor, and announced, “Excuse me for just a moment. Powder room. Back in a blink.”
She vanished down the hall, but -
Spoiler alert: That powder room had a direct enchanted connection to The Immortal Gazette studio. And Alice? She was about to cause a Category 5 trickster storm.
She appeared in her studio office, tossed her curls dramatically, and said one word into the magic mirror communicator:
“Loki.”
The mirror flickered… and then there he was. That maddeningly handsome mess of chaos incarnate. Wavy auburn hair tousled just right, mismatched eyes gleaming with mischief.
He smirked. “Well, well. What’s the occasion, Mad Mistress?”
“Oh, no occasion,” Alice said, so obviously lying. “Just thought you might enjoy a casual little visit to The Immortal Quill. It’s right down the path. Rapunzel’s telling a story… I think she mentioned your name.”
Loki’s eyes sparkled. “Oh? Did she now?”
Alice gave him a bright, unbothered smile that practically dripped with subtext. “Come for the story… stay for the chaos.”
Back at the Quill…
Rapunzel was mid-monologue, struggling now. Her story was veering into accidental sonnet territory, and Goldi was dramatically fake-snoring on a couch.
“- and so Alice, dazzling as ever, strode into the storm of her own destiny, quill in hand, tea in the other, a lone legend among lesser legacies -”
BANG.
The door to the Immortal Quill blew open with a gust of enchanted wind and ancient mischief.
In strolled Loki.
Every head whipped around.
Rapunzel gasped, then coughed to cover it. “Oh… um… hi?”
Alice strolled back in seconds later, perfectly timed, not even winded.
“Oh look,” she purred, “what a coincidence.”
Tink whispered to Goldi, “She summoned him. I know she summoned him.”
Red snorted. “That’s a power move if I’ve ever seen one.”
Wendy, wide-eyed, whispered, “Is this a love triangle or a war declaration?”
Snow smirked, “Either way. This? Is gonna be juicy.”
The Quill glowed with anticipation.
And Loki? He just winked at Alice.
Game on.
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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