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The Lonely Princess (2,500 words; fairy-tale)

The Lonely Princess (2,500 words; fairy-tale)

 Defenestration Magazine (December 2023)

When the noble Sir Gregor saves Princess Flora from a series of increasingly absurd assassination attempts, she begins to fall for him—and his path into the royal family seems smooth and certain. But his true love, a hot-tempered, overly attached, and wildly dramatic troubadour, refuses to be written out of the story. With poisoned apples and repressed emotions flying, this twist on the well-known tale gives queerness the centre stage in a classic romantic myth.