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So before you get to the rest of this post, just know that Cinderella Reimagined has been published as a paperback and as an ebook (both Amazon). So much fun!
I have to admit that I went through a love of the Cinderella-folktale in August last year and wrote quite a few stories… So I decided to spruce one up (you can read the original version here) and enter it into the awesome Cinderella-project that Anne J Anguilar-Van der Merwe and Theresa Barker had invited us all to participate in. Remember: the deadline is the end of the month!
If you want to know more about the project, click on either link above. The Twitter hashtag is #CinderellaMythmakers (awesome, right?). And click on the following links if you want to read Anne’s story, City of Magic, and Theresa’s story Little Rich Girl – both are amazing takes on the folktale. And if you’d like to read all of the entries thus far, go here.
[*Update: I’m sorry, but you can no longer read this story here. All accepted submissions to the anthology had to be removed from the blogosphere. Cinderella Reimagined: An Anthology of Cinderella Retellings will be out in November 2017.]
“Cinderella Reimagined — an anthology of Cinderella Retellings” available here:
https://www.amazon.com/Cinderella-Reimagined-Anthology-Retellings/dp/1979701970/
I hope you liked what happened after the happily-ever-after – some believe Cinderella drove the Prince mad with her obsessive cleaning of the castle, but perhaps he’s the one who didn’t turn out so great. And what’s it like to really be married to Prince Charming?
So, what do you think? Did you like it? Would you change something about it? Did you like the allusion to her socialite-life before the accident?
I thought this would be a great way to show that a story doesn’t have to be long – like Just Deserts – to be effective. And that it doesn’t always have to have a happy-ever-after… I always appreciate feedback, so leave your thoughts in the comments.
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The short of it – I like it a lot! 🙂 Despite the “reality” of life after the so-called “happily ever after”, I think that readers can still give it so much – in their head – that will make it as they want to see it; if they don’t want a too realistic break up of a relationship, considering the apologies. Also, Cindy’s resolve allows the readers to have varied imagined future for her.
My son doesn’t understand when I run past him a story I’m working on and it has a rather sad ending, or if it’s open-ended. I told him that that’s the “reality” thrown in with the fiction and it moves away from the Hollywood rom-com or chick-flick predictability. 🙂
Thank you so much for this, Ronel! #CinderellaMythmakers is awesome, indeed, and the #CinderellaMythmakers writers/authors are as awesome!
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Thanks, Anne 🙂 This story just stuck with me, wanting to be told… What I like most about this one is how the outcome can be anything the reader’s imagination can dream up.
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Absolutely! And I love those. I am a firm believer that we decide where we take our life and despite destiny life is how we “make”/live it. 🙂
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Because the story doesn’t end at the wedding…
This is another excellent entry for our Cinderella Anthology Projects; a superb flash fiction!
A quick read that is as enjoyable a read as a full short story.
Thank you so much, Ronel! It sounds like an opportunity to go beyond and be awesome after the old last words, “And they lived happily ever after!” 🙂
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Nice!
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Thanks, Jennie 🙂
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You’re welcome!
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… and here is another story from Ronel the Mythmaker, storyteller out of South Africa, for #CinderellaMythmakers – enjoy!
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