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Last Dance: A Retold Fairy Tale    by Anna Godiva
Price: $2.99 USD. 2460 words. Language: English. Published by WPF Press  on April 15, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.

When Lord Oliver, Commander of the Revolutionary Army, assumed control of the Fairytale Kingdom, he banned dancing. But when his daughter's shoes show signs of wear and tear, Lord Oliver must get to the bottom of it. How, why, and where are his twelve daughters dancing?
Little Man: A Retold Fairy Tale    by Anna Godiva
Price: $2.99 USD. 2620 words. Language: English. Published by WPF Press  on April 15, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.

It's graduation day. Charlotte, the miller's daughter, will do anything to marry her former beau, Prince Philippe: even claim she can spin straw into gold. Then, of course, there’s Rumpelstiltskin: a short, malformed, "straight F" student, who doubts anyone even knows his name.
Wrath of the Titans: Force of the Trojans #2    by Bluewater Productions
Price: $1.99 USD. 20 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.

As Apollo and Artemis lead an expedition to find the last of the Oracles of Delphi, King Minos — the mortal who would be a god — closes his trap unleashing horrific abominations from the depths of the sea. Fighting their way across the Mediterranean on their quest, the twin gods of Olympus discover that one of those under their command is a traitor. 
Легенда об Утренней Звезде (Legend of the Morning Star, Russian translation)    by Elizabeth McCoy
Price: $0.99 USD. 3240 words. Language: Russian. Published on April 11, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » General.

Давным-давно, во времена, когда драконы еще не истребили богов, жила-была принцесса... Ветерки-добродушные духи воздуха-пересмеивались и сплетничали о красивой смертной девушке, которая-ну и ну-почти не уступает им в искусстве танца. Подслушав разговоры ветерков, cолнечный бог заинтересовался. И послал своего слугу Кайро проследить за девушкой-проверить, так ли она красива, как уверяют ветерки...
Susie and her Nine Tales (The Susie Chapman Series #9)    by Faye Hollidaye
Price: Free! 3880 words. Language: American English. Published on April 10, 2013. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

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The ninth installment in a series of short stories focusing on Susie Chapman, a missing high school junior. Follow various narrators to learn about a unique girl who has her whole high school mesmerized and talking about her. Decide for yourself whether she's innocent or guilty of taking things too far.
10th Muse: Gallery #1    by Bluewater Productions
Price: $1.99 USD. 20 words. Language: English. Published on April 8, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.

10 years ago this book from IMAGE COMICS blasted onto the scene as the 6th highest selling comic book. Covers by famed comic book artists like Chris Bachelo (X-Men), Andy Park (Tomb Raider), Randy Green (Witchblade), Roger Cruz (Spiderman) were published. Now in one place you will find the best of the best of 10 years of covers.
An Ocean of Cries    by Magnus Lockeman
Price: Free! 830 words. Language: English. Published on April 8, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.

This is a short experimental story: The girl would not stop crying. Why? No one knew, because no one had ears.
INNOCENCE ENDS: A Very Short Story (from the QUIT SCHOOL! collection)    by Francis Bennett
Price: $0.99 USD. 3790 words. Language: English. Published on April 5, 2013. Fiction » Children’s books » Social Issues / Friendship.

"Every kid in my class at St. Patrick's School had a haunted house in his neighborhood. Even at ten years old I figured that was a lot of haunted houses for one town." For children, myths are real. When myths fall away, however, melancholy takes over. Do we really want to see the truth?
Insect: An Entomological Fairy Tale    by David Keffer
Price: $3.99 USD. 59450 words. Language: English. Published on April 1, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Trapped within a palace following a holocaust, the inhabitants—two queens, one dysfunctional and the other petulant, an angry gardener, a lovelorn soldier, a jester, a court magician, a distraught minstrel and an oracle hiding behind the boiler—seek to survive in their post-apocalyptic isolation, though the greatest threat may come from the memory of the King, which haunts the palace.
Neither Good Nor Bad: How Prometheus Stole Fire for Humankind    by Lowell Uda
Price: Free! 4740 words. Language: English. Published by Rice Universe Publishing  on March 27, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fairy Tales.

In this retelling of a Greek myth, the author explores and comments on the human character and condition through the story of how the Titan Prometheus so loved the creatures he had created that he stole fire from the gods and gave it to them to further their intellectual and technological development and the development of civilization. But was there a price to pay, for Prometheus and us?