📚 Short Stories From The Immortal Quill – Issue #66
The Fridge That Judged Us All
It began like all suspicious Mondays do - too quiet, too peaceful, and with just enough ominous humming from the lounge to signal impending chaos.
Cindi, radiant and proud, stood next to a gleaming, opalescent new addition to The Immortal Quill’s kitchenette.
“Behold!” she announced, throwing open the double doors with flair. “Our new Frostgeist Deluxe Chillkeeper 5000!”
It glowed. It purred. It sparkled like it had an exclusive contract with Elsa.
“It’s a smart fridge,” Cindi explained. “Enchanted to preserve magical ingredients, organize snacks by spell type, and politely roast you if you reach for your seventh pastry before lunch.”
“Politely what?” Red arched a brow.
“It gives nutritional feedback! With love,” Cindi added.
Goldi pressed herself against the wall like the fridge had FBI ties. “Love is code for surveillance! That thing is absolutely wiretapped by the Candy Illuminati.”But no one listened.
At first, it seemed amazing.
The fridge sparkled when you approached it. It softly purred, “Good morning, sugar. Hydration is divine,” and handed you a perfectly chilled rosewater elixir. It even organized the taffy experiments into color-coded drawers labeled “Hopeful,” “Questionable,” and “Cursed (Do Not Lick Without Anti-Venom).”
Dorothy was enchanted. “It just called me ‘sunshine with potential.’”
Red opened it. “It recommended I pair my cinnamon rage muffin with a green tea cleanse. …How dare it.”
Tink loved it. “Finally, someone appreciates my lavender-glitter-magic-honey-truffles.”
Rumple whispered sweet nothings to it. “Oh Frosty, you understand me. Unlike those peasants who judged my fire-and-blood marmalade.”
But by midday, the fridge turned.
It slammed shut when Rapunzel tried to store leftover salmon tacos.
“You know better,” it hissed in an eerily calm voice. “We all know better.”
It froze Tink’s favorite fairy pastries into crystalline bricks.
It locked Dorothy’s chocolate stash behind a frosted magical puzzle and declared, “Solve the riddle of moderation, and you may pass.”
Goldi screamed. “IT’S IN MY HEAD I HEAR IT THINKING.”
Cindi frowned. “It just needs a little debugging - ”
“I heard that,” the fridge snapped. “I may be frosty, darling, but I am sensitive.”
And then it dropped a passive-aggressive ice cube that spelled “RUDE.”
It was only a matter of time before they summoned help.
Enter Loki.
Casually sipping a SLA$HERBUCK$ concoction labeled “Moonlit Mischief with Extra Sass,” he inspected the fridge with a slow blink.
“Why is your refrigerator channeling passive-aggressive librarian energy?” he asked.
“It was supposed to be helpful,” Cindi groaned.
With a sigh that somehow radiated devastating handsomeness, Loki tapped the fridge with a rune-infused spoon and muttered something in a language older than drama itself.
The fridge shuddered. Released all the snack compartments. Whimpered a little. Then went silent.
Loki shrugged. “There. It thinks it's a wine rack now. Harmless. Slightly bougie. A bit judgy about screw-top lids.”
Goldi slapped a new sticker on the door:
“WARNING: May judge your snacking choices. Curse-free as of 2:17 PM.”
Cindi crossed her arms. “You could’ve let it live its truth.”
“And risk another sentient appliance uprising?” Red deadpanned. “No thanks. I still have PTSD from Rapunzel’s smart chairs.”
Everyone agreed. For now.
Tomorrow, they might need a new toaster.
Or a Portal Blender 9000 that definitely doesn’t send your smoothies into other dimensions.
To be continued…
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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.
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