📚 Short Stories From The Immortal Quill – Issue #31
New Day, New Shenanigans at The Immortal Quill
“Absolutely Perfect, Utterly Chaotic”
It was a suspiciously quiet morning in the Story Circle.
The glitter had been swept up (mostly), the cursed muffins replaced with “non-possessed” croissants, and the magical ink stains temporarily contained in decorative jars labeled “Totally Not Cursed, Probably”.
And that’s when the door creaked open with dramatic flair - cue the faint sound of organ music and thunderclaps despite zero storms forecasted - and in strolled Rumplestiltskin, lanky and looming in his usual spiked boots, black coat flaring behind him like he’d practiced that entrance.
The streaks of green in his dark hair shimmered with shadowy drama, and his eye-roll was already loading.
“I heard,” he said, voice full of theatrical suspicion, “that some people are not getting along.”
The ladies froze.
Red dropped her sarcasm, Goldi quickly swallowed the half-snarky thing she was about to say, Snow pasted on the fakest smile this side of enchanted reality, and Tink - still smarting from yesterday - was already holding a pre-scripted monologue titled “Reasons I’m Not the Problem.”
Dorothy beamed. “Rumple! Darling! We are simply thriving!”
“Yes, yes,” Cinderella nodded, dusting nothing off her gown. “Harmonious. Productive. A sisterhood forged in enchanted ink.”
Rumple raised one eyebrow. “Uh huh.”
Rapunzel added sweetly, “We’ve been telling stories together all morning! It’s going beautifully!”
Red, eyes twitching slightly, threw her arm around Snow. “We’re like - like if glitter and diplomacy had a baby.”
Snow, eyes just as twitchy, whispered through her teeth, “Why am I the glitter in that metaphor?”
Goldi laughed just a little too loudly. “We even did a trust fall circle this morning! I caught Tink!”
Tink smiled like she wasn’t plotting an airborne revenge arc. “And I thanked her. Genuinely.”
Rumple glanced at the barely disguised chalkboard in the corner where someone had angrily scrawled “No One Wants Your Nap Tales, Tinkerbelinda” and then half-erased it.
“Mmmhmm,” Rumple said, folding his arms. “Sounds perfectly normal.”
He started pacing the room slowly, inspecting the suspiciously sparkly air. “So no sass? No passive-aggressive jabs? No storytime sabotage?”
“None!” Rapunzel chirped.
“We're mature now,” Goldi said, nodding like she was convincing herself.
“Totally evolved,” Red said, flipping her braid over her shoulder. “Like emotional Pokémon.”
Dorothy smiled. “You should stay and see it for yourself.”
Rumple stopped, turned on his boot heel, and gave them the Look.
“Tempting,” he drawled, “but I know a staged harmony when I see it. You’re all acting. Badly, I might add. But you get points for effort.”
They all blinked.
He headed for the door with a satisfied smirk. “Still... I like it. The chaos, the drama under the surface - it’s delicious. Keep up the good work.”
He opened the door, looked back with a wink. “Just don’t kill each other. That’s HR’s department.”
And with a swirl of his coat and the faint sound of thunder again - seriously, where was that coming from?? - he was gone.
The second the door clicked shut, the ladies exploded.
“Ugh, I hate trust falls,” Tink snapped, fluttering higher.
“I hate you narrating other people’s naps like it’s a TED Talk,” Red shot back.
Snow plopped dramatically into her seat. “Well, that was exhausting.”
Cinderella sighed. “At least he thinks we’re stable.”
Dorothy raised her mug. “To being perfectly chaotic and chaotically perfect.”
Rapunzel grinned. “Now… whose turn is it to tell today’s story?”
The chaos lives on - but with style, sass, and just enough glitter to blind a minor god.
🔥 🖋 📚
The Immortal Quill 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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