📚 Short Stories From The Immortal Quill – Issue #37
New Day at The Immortal Quill
“The Boy Made of Lies”
A Not-So-Wooden Tale Inspired by the Original Pinocchio
(Definitely no blue fairies or catchy songs here, folks. This one’s straight outta vintage horror-moral land.)Cinderella waltzed in with glittery frustration. “If one more person calls the Disney version ‘the real one,’ I’m gonna throw a glass slipper.”
Goldi yelled, "Yes, finally someone says it! She rolled her eyes dramatically flicking a oiece of popcorn across the room. "What is freakin wrong with people - we ALL come from tales way older than that.
Red smirked. “Let’s tell that story then - the real one. The one where lying had consequences, creepy crickets didn’t sing, and kids turned into donkeys for being brats.”
Snow raised her teacup. “Cheers to dark moral tales. Who’s telling it?”
“I’ll do it,” said Rapunzel, brushing a paintbrush through her hair. “I’ve got a twisty flair for the macabre.”
The Boy Made of Lies
(Based on the OG 1883 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Buckle up, it gets wild.)
Once upon a splintered shadow of a town, there lived a lonely woodcarver named Geppetto who crafted a puppet - not from ordinary pine, oh no - but from a cursed piece of wood stolen from a fae-blessed forest.
The puppet had eyes that blinked before they were painted on, a mouth that whispered secrets, and limbs that creaked with mischief.
Geppetto named him Pinocchio, and the trouble began immediately.
He lied.
About everything.
“Did you eat the bread?”
“No.” (CRRREEEAAAK - his nose stretched two inches.)
“Did you push the cat into the firewood?”
“No.” (CRRREEEAAAK - four inches.)
Every lie twisted his face, contorted his limbs, and turned his voice sharp as splinters. But Pinocchio? He loved it. The lying gave him power. And with power came escape.
He ran away from Geppetto.
He ignored warnings. Shunned good advice. And ended up at the Carnival of Lost Causes, where boys were lured in with candy dreams and lazy promises. But the price? Oh, honey… it was steep.
They turned into donkeys.
Hooves. Brays. No escape.
But Pinocchio? He fought back.
With a dagger carved from his own wooden rib and a lie so massive it broke the enchantment (“I’ve never told a lie in my life”), he shattered the curse… only to find himself face-to-face with a deeper consequence:
Every lie he'd ever told - now flesh and bone, screaming shadows made real - crawled from his wooden veins.
And that’s when he begged.
Begged to become real - not flesh, but true.
The forest, tired of his nonsense, granted his wish in the worst way:
They turned him into a tree.
Roots grounded him in truth.
Branches bore the names of every lie.
Leaves whispered warnings to passing children.
And Geppetto? He visits every year, carving names of those who lie too often onto the bark of his once-son.
Red gave a slow clap. “Ten outta ten. Nightmare fuel.”
Goldi blinked. “Did we just turn Pinocchio into a horror legend?”
Tink sipped her latte. “Iconic.”
Workday: wrapped.
Lies tangled, roots deep, and the forest forever watching.
🔥 🖋 📚
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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