📚 Short Stories From The Immortal Quill – Issue #7
Tangled Truths & Tower Falls
“Let down your hair? Darling, I whipped fate with it.”
The Quill sparkled midair like it was auditioning for the role of “Drama Queen’s Favorite Weapon” as Tink finally - reluctantly - released it from her glitter-clawed grip.
With a little theatrical “hmph,” she floated backwards as Rapunzel snatched the Quill with a ribbon of her magically-imbued hair.
“Finally,” Rapunzel said, twirling the quill like a wand. “Now you’ll hear the real story, not the sparkled-up versions Tink writes in her burn book.”
“Excuse me -” Tink started.
“Hush, fairy spice. It’s storytime.” Rapunzel took center stage, lit from beneath by the enchanted glow of her hair as it slowly floated around her like golden flames.
“So, you know that story about me locked in a tower, brushing my hair for nineteen years, just waiting for some average prince to climb up and rescue me?”
She gave a dramatic blink.
“Lies. Bold-faced, scandalous lies.”
Goldi leaned forward. “Knew it!”
“Truth is,” Rapunzel continued, “I was trying to escape myself. That tower? Was a prison. Built by a cursed queen who’d stolen my magic when I was born. She bottled up the sunlight in my hair and sealed me away like a genie in a bottle.”
Snow sipped her tea, wide-eyed. “Wait. You had bottled sunlight in your hair?”
“Still do, darling,” Rapunzel winked. “It’s just more... weaponized now.”
Cinderella scribbled notes under the table. “Sunlight hair. Potential black market value.”
Rapunzel paced dramatically, hair curling and uncurling like an anxious serpent. “Anyway, after years of planning, I finally attempted my grand escape. Climbed down with my own hair - yes, the irony is not lost on me - but halfway down, I slipped.”
Gasps. Dramatic string music plays in the background.
“And that’s when he caught me. My fall broke every mortal bone I had - but then this shadowy figure stepped from the forest, caught me mid-air, eyes glowing like twilight. He was a Daywalker. Prince Kaelen of the House of Dusk.”
Tink gasped. “Ugh, that man is delicious. Still brooding, I hope?”
“Oh, to the point of poetry,” Rapunzel sighed dramatically. “He turned me to save me. It was the only way. I woke up glowing - literally - and haven’t aged a day since. I became one of them. An Immortal. The hair stayed, thank the stars. Stronger than ever. Magical. Deadlier. And I built my own kingdom out of the ruins of that tower.”
Red gave a slow clap. “Okay. That’s pretty badass.”
“I know,” Rapunzel smirked. “I turned my trauma into a castle.”
Goldi raised a brow. “So you’re saying... the real Rapunzel fell out of the tower, died, and came back as an immortal witch-princess with sunlight hair and a vampire boyfriend?”
“Exactly.”
Tink fake-yawned. “I’ve dated worse.”
“Then,” Rapunzel continued, ignoring her, “I took down the curse queen myself. With my hair, no less. Choked her out in a braid of flaming runes. Burned her spellbook. Took her crown.”
“And now?” Cinderella asked.
Rapunzel smirked and let her hair sweep the Quill into a neat inkwell of starfire. “Now I rule the Towerlands. My castle floats above the old ruins, and I braid spells that can trap gods. I host twilight balls where the chandeliers hum lullabies and the wine sings prophecies. And Kaelen? He’s still delicious.”
Everyone stared.
Then -
“I mean... yeah, I would’ve started with that part,” Tink muttered.
Red rolled her eyes. “Can we not start swooning again?”
“Too late,” Goldi grinned. “I’m making tea labeled Kaelen’s Kiss. It’ll sell out in a week.”
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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