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Cast of Wonders 661: Bloom Like Roses, Wild And Thorned

Cast of Wonders 661: Bloom Like Roses, Wild And Thorned is a Cast of Wonders original.

CW: abusive relationships, themes of domestic violence

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Bloom Like Roses, Wild and Thorned

by Jessica Lévai

Perhaps you’ve heard the tale of a poor merchant who set out to seek his fortune, leaving his daughter home with the promise of a rose. There was a storm. There was a castle. There was a Beast.

The merchant spends most nights down at the tavern. Buy him a drink and he’ll tell you the whole story, or as much as he cares to remember. He’ll tell you how he reached the castle just in time, how invisible servants catered to his every need, how he was safe at last. At first. Until the rose. (Continue Reading…)

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Cast of Wonders 387: The Rose Sisterhood

Cast of Wonders 387: The Rose Sisterhood is a Cast of Wonders original.

Abusive relationships. Murder.

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The Rose Sisterhood

by Susan Taitel

My Sisters and I await the next girl. She will be beautiful. We always are. We hope she’ll be the one to break the curse, that she will have the wherewithal to see our master as he truly is. To succeed where we all failed.

We do not know when she will arrive. We hope it will be soon. It is not good for our master to go too long without a companion. We Sisters are not company.

As we wait, I try to console our newest Sister. It was only a flinch. I assure her she still has a role to play. There are clothes to mend, meals to prepare, and roses to prune. She won’t be comforted yet — her bones are too fresh. I know she will adjust to her new station in time. We all do.

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