Never After: Thirteen Twists on Familiar Tales

Forget perfect princesses, handsome princes, and “happily ever after.” In this collection of thirteen flash-length fairy tale retellings, award-winning author Marie Brennan introduces you to a world of manipulative mirrors, treacherous pigs, and candy houses that will eat you right up. Each one is a subversive little gem, guaranteed to shock the Brothers Grimm.

This collection, the slightly cheerier but still twisted younger sibling to Monstrous Beauty, is available now!

Table of Contents

• “The Mirror’s Tale”
• “The Kindness of Sisters”
• “Conversation with a Wolf”
• “Gold”
• “A Smile, a Laugh”
• “Nesu-a”
• “The Princess and the . . .”
• “One Last Prize”
• “The Fall of the Fortress of Brick”
• “Many Faces”
• “Every Moment, I Dream of Sleep”
• “Just Right”
• “And Everything Nice”
• Afterword