Author Topic: EP016: Seamstress  (Read 3639 times)

Russell Nash

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on: October 12, 2008, 06:16:00 PM
EP016: Seamstress

By Sarah Prineas.
Read by Deborah Green.

So, the Godmother. She takes ragged, smudged things and turns them into beautiful Princesses. Why, I don’t know. A hobby? A calling? An obsession? Is she righting the wrongs done to her when she was young?

When I first started here, I had a fantasy. That the Godmother would pluck me out of the row of humpbacked, squinting Seamstresses and make me, too, a beautiful Princess. With a gown sewn by…well, by the poor wenches too old or ugly to catch the Godmother’s eye.


Rated PG. Contains sexual situations and, unrelated, the loss of innocence.



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Reply #1 on: February 12, 2010, 05:51:30 PM
Ah, the stories behind the stories, how I like this subgenre.  Foolish me, I never even wondered where the Fairy Godmother got the goods!