Once Upon A Time: the Dark Fairy Tales Challenge

[StillStunned]

Stories are already showing up with the "dark fairy tales 2025" tag:

 

[Erozetta]

I'm working on mine now.

 

[EmilyMiller]

As ever the Incest crowd hate a Taboo story, which I totally assumed would be the case . Maybe a candidate for another trial separation like Transgender and Crossdressing!

 

[Jorunn]

A nice variety of categories, illustrating where the readers are.

 

[Bazzle]

Well I've submitted my bit for this challenge.

I've been in the lucky position to have @StillStunned have a cursory glance over the words.

I think I can take "It's certainly dark" as a positive.

I haven't heard from him since as he was busy opening windows and trying to think "nice" thoughts to recover.

 

[caleb35]

I'll submit mine in a couple of weeks. While I really want to submit it to the "Sci-Fi and Fantasy" category, I think I honestly will have to submit it to "Non-Erotic" category; the erotic elements in it simply aren't that much/strong

 

[SmilingLez]

I finally completed my (deliciously dark) fairy tale prose. This was truly an enjoyable challenge. I never liked "coloring in the lines". Just submitted - " The Lucky Plate Club".

 

[StillStunned]

I'm 2200 words into my second story.

Of course it helps if you have half a dozen WIPs just waiting to be finished. But this one has some bits I'm quite proud of:

“Hoo!” replied the owl, rising up on the night air in a rush of heavy wings. “Bold you are, if you stay the night despite my warning. But fortune be with you!” And it vanished into the darkness with a final “Hoo!”

“Well Brother,” said Prince Harplun, “do you know what the owl meant? What is a hag?”

“A creature whispered of in dark corners. She takes the form of an old woman, and enchants her victims with a spell.” Harplass shuddered. “She turns them into horses, and rides them all night until they collapse, broken, shaking and sweating. Although in some tales,” he added thoughtfully, “the victim retains their human form. Those are the worst, perhaps, because they lack the stamina of a horse. The victims in those tales rarely survive.”

Prince Harplun gave a laugh. “Are we to believe in such a creature? Wise the owl might be, but its words were foolish. Come, Brother, what say you? Do we run off like rabbits in the dark, or do we make ourselves at home here?”

Prince Harplass dismounted. “The certainty of a warm place to spend the night, for ourselves and our horses, against the possibility of a visit from a hag? I too doubt the risk. We stay here tonight.”

(I'm not married to the names Harplass and Harplun, and looking back over the text I think I switched the princes' names around at some point.)

 

[AgentDoiron]

I just submitted. "The deal her Grandparents Made" in BDSM.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Okay friends, Pomma’s Orchard posts tomorrow, please be gentle and kind I have never written a dark fairytale before.

And thank you @StillStunned for putting this together.

 

[BryanRichardson]

The Shepherd is scheduled for tomorrow in Sci-Fi and Fantasy. No Sci-Fi, and not much sex, but a nice little story.

 

[Yogma]

The first story is now submitted.

The second story is written and now just needs (several) proof-readings. Hopefully I'll get it done by the closing date

 

[Bazzle]

As @StillStunned pointed out I posted this in the wrong thread...darn it competitions running concurrently.

https://www.literotica.com/s/an-alternative-universe-pt-03

Its dark, its fairytale like. There is a sort of fairy godmother type character...she just wears short skirts and has fake tits...and as its a Bazzle story she smokes.

Maybe, just maybe some might like it...I expect only a few!

B

 

[StillStunned]

As @StillStunned pointed out I posted this in the wrong thread...darn it competitions running concurrently.

https://www.literotica.com/s/an-alternative-universe-pt-03

Its dark, its fairytale like. There is a sort of fairy godmother type character...she just wears short skirts and has fake tits...and as its a Bazzle story she smokes.

Maybe, just maybe some might like it...I expect only a few!

B

Read, rated and commented!

 

[BryanRichardson]

https://literotica.com/s/the-shepherd
A couple hundred people have already touched it, and 5 have voted on it…

 

[Erozetta]

Alright, I'm in.


Also... Apologies for typos, I'm not gonna have time to edit this, so just submitting as is. I know there are gonna be mistakes and I will fix them once I get some more time but I don't know when that will be!

It's just over 6k words, and the noncon is only implied. As far as I know, there's no actual fairy tale I based it off of, so... This is me raw dogging a fairy tale story idea ... Which I probably fucked up. But... I like it.

 

[Dean_Harper]

I just deleted the story I was writing and started again.

Which is good. I didn't like where the last one was going, but I'm flying through version two. I won't be able to submit it right away the way I was going to, but I think I'll be happier with a later submission I like, rather than an earlier one I don't care for.

 

[StillStunned]

I just deleted the story I was writing and started again.

Which is good. I didn't like where the last one was going, but I'm flying through version two. I won't be able to submit it right away the way I was going to, but I think I'll be happier with a later submission I like, rather than an earlier one I don't care for.

I can't help but feel that for a Fairy Tale challenge you should have discarded the first one, discarded the second one, but the third one was perfect.

 

[Dean_Harper]

I can't help but feel that for a Fairy Tale challenge you should have discarded the first one, discarded the second one, but the third one was perfect.

Don't say things like that. I have several other writing projects planned and the last thing I need is more delays.

 

[StillStunned]

I'm having the best time writing a hag for another fairy tale. The rest of the story and dialogue are in the kind of language you'd expect in a fairy tale (or at least the ones I read growing up):

One day it so happened that the Princes Harplass and Harplun went out hunting. It was a chill day, and no game was out. Yet they had promised the cook in the palace kitchens that they would bring a hart, or even a great boar from the forest.

So they ventured far afield, farther than they normally would, until they looked up to see the sun sinking low to the western horizon.

“See now, Brother,” declared Harplass, pulling at his reins to halt his horse. “The sun sets, and we are a long way from home. I fear it will be dark before we return, and empty-handed to disappoint Cook.”

But this hag that they encounter has her own way of speaking, and she's not cleaning up her vocabulary:

But suddenly she opened her mouth again and let him slip free. “No no, my sweet,” she murmured in her harsh voice, licking her lips, “not yet. It’s fun to suck, but it’s better to fuck. Time for thrusting, not busting, my sweet.”

She straightened, legs still on either side of the Prince, and looked at his face. “But perhaps later I’ll suck you dry, oh my, we can try, but I’ll want you to lick too, the dickings and the lickings, using your tongue and your lips, not just your cock and your hips, such a sweet tongue, what could go wrong?”

(...)

“Riding,” she sang softly. “Riding, rising, falling, fucking.” Up and down she went. “In and out, up the pole and in the hole, fucking and filling and stretching the cunt, can’t quiet the cunt, can’t quell its hunger, hugging the dick, nice and thick, in and out, in and out, the pole in the hole, fucking me, filling me, thrilling me, delighting me, exciting me, making me scream, making me cream, making me come, here I come, here I come!”

The first sex scene is about 1.2k words like this. I have another two to go. My rhyming skills are going to be tested.

 

[Dean_Harper]

I'm having the best time writing a hag for another fairy tale. The rest of the story and dialogue are in the kind of language you'd expect in a fairy tale (or at least the ones I read growing up):


But this hag that they encounter has her own way of speaking, and she's not cleaning up her vocabulary:


The first sex scene is about 1.2k words like this. I have another two to go. My rhyming skills are going to be tested.

God damn, that is some well written dialogue.

 

[StillStunned]

God damn, that is some well written dialogue.

Thanks!

 

[TiberiusPrime]

I can't help but feel that for a Fairy Tale challenge you should have discarded the first one, discarded the second one, but the third one was perfect.

Nah, it would've been just right.

 

[AgentDoiron]

My entry is publishing tomorrow, but it got shunted to the reluctance / non-consent category. I'm not happy about that.

On the one hand, I get it. The plot is that a girl was sold into bondage by her grandparents, so yes - non-consent. On the other hand the reluctance/ non-consent category is mostly full of rape fantasies, but my story doesn't contain rape. It actually doesn't contain any sex, just bondage. Thus, I thought it should go in the BDSM category, which contains plenty of stories with questionable consent.

Definitely leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[Yogma]

My entry is publishing tomorrow, but it got shunted to the reluctance / non-consent category. I'm not happy about that.

Sorry to hear that - but interesting none the less.

I'm quite often conflicted about which category some of my stories should go in, as they often have multiple themes. I never new that a reviewer could change a writers chosen category.