Rapunzel Takes ChargeShe paced and paced across the bare floorboards, fumbling with the strap of her watch, pulling and tugging at the buckle. If only she could get it off, if only it could be gone! Perhaps then time would stop. Her state was already delusional enough, but thinking that helped some, kept off a small portion of the blind panic.There was a soft sound of metal hitting, scraping against each other. The watch fell away in the girl's hands. She swallowed with relief and rushed toward the window. Now would she need to unlock the window. With her fingernails she scraped against the paint, attempting to reach the latch, glued shut by the thick white pai
A Vengeful CinderellaThe poor girl stood by her ill mother as they said their final goodbyes, for they both knew she was nearing the end. She asked her daughter to come further as she whispered softly, "Be good dear child and I will look down on thee from Heaven and guide thee." She then closed her eyes and left her poor daughter crying at her bedside. Years later, the girl's father remarried. The new wife brought along two beautiful, yet hateful daughters. They took her elegant clothes and jewelry and forced her to wear an old, grey nightgown and clunky wooden shoes. They treated her as a slave. She worked from the crack of dawn to nightfall, carrying water, l
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