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The genuine concern in her voice takes me by surprise.

"I'm fine," I answered, hoping she can't read the truth in my feelings. "I just had a nightmare."

The lie tastes bitter on my tongue. I can tell Anassa doesn't totally buy it, but she doesn't argue.

"Well, go back to sleep," she says. "You're keeping me up."

Very self indulgently combined two of of my favorite things, Star Wars and Ren Faires

Day 5: JOMPBPC: Dead Author

Hi!

Thank you for asking!

7. What fairy tale would you retell in a completely different genre and setting?

There are so many fairy tales it’s hard to even think of one, so I’ll probably change my mind five minutes after pressing ‘post’, but Thumbelina as a thing where Thumbelina is forced to be a spy for the wizard who made her (is this her mother or the person who gave her to her mother in this retelling? if it’s the second one does the mother even know?) and that’s why she ends up in all those different places. I think I’d go in a steampunk-ish direction for this.

8. Recommend a particularly ambitious fairy tale retelling.  

I could recommend Spinning Silver again, but you’ve already read that, so The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey which is also really, really good. I find it similar to Spinning Silver in that the setting is very important to the plot, though it sticks more to its original fairy tale (The Snow Child, Snegurochka...).

11. What fairy tale would you adapt into a movie, given an infinite budget and a Rolodex of every cool person in the industry?  

I don’t really watch movies, so this movie would be very action based, by which I don’t necessarily mean an action movie but everything would always be moving, even when people were talking. Think Frozen, In Front of the Class (even with voice overs there are no scenery scenes, but actual scenes happening), and most parts of The Truman Show (I know I zoned out in some scenes, but I stayed in enough for me to understand everything that happened except that part that comes before the climax). 

That preface because it would have to be a fairy tale that fit that, so Little Red Riding Hood, but not live action. Alternatively, because there are already good ones of that that exist, a Goldilocks short with no/very few words (short because she’s alone so much of the story).

@anassarhenisch recommends great books and recipes. Thank you again for writing it up! So far, besides me, my mother and brother also tasted the cookies and they loved them.