STORY STARTER

Submitted by chiyo | チヨ |

Write a story based on the worst case scenario in a classic fairy tale.

For example, what could have happened if one of Cinderella’s sisters became the Princes’ wife instead?

Hansel & Gretel, Forgotten

Abandoned and lost in the forest, two siblings wandered. They wandered for days with no way home. A house began to appear in the distance, and Hansel and Gretel ran towards it. The whole house was made of candy! A kind-looking woman let them inside and fed them some candy. The children ate and ate and ate until their teeth hurt. The woman made them eat more candy. She’d forced them to eat all the candy she had. They’d gained a lot more weight since they’d first gotten there. The two of them started wondering why this random lady was making them eat sooo much candy. But they were afraid to ask.


After many many days, the woman gave Hansel a “special” cookie. He refused to eat it so the lady shoved it into his mouth, forcefully, making him eat it. When he did, **HE EXPLODED!!!** Gretel watched her brother explode into billions pieces. Blood and flesh splattered everywhere. Traumatized, Gretel ran towards the door of the house. It was locked. “You can’t escape, Gretel. Eat the cookie like your brother did,” the lady demanded her to eat the cookie and end up like her brother. Gretel didn’t want that. She started eating the door made of gingerbread. She ate as fast as ever. Faster than when the lady was forcing her and her brother to eat candy. Gretel ate through the door within a minute, before the woman could catch her. She ran away from the house but she’d eaten too much candy to run as fast as she used to. But soon, she’d lost the lady who was way too slow to catch anyone or anything.


Gretel was in the forest again. Just like she was many many days ago. But this time, without her dear brother. She’d wandered for days with no food or water anywhere. Gretel became desperate for food. There was nothing around. No plants, only dirt. No trees or animals. No houses or people in sight. She was dying of dehydration and starvation. Gretel had become so thin now. With no more fat to live off of. She suffered for a few days before dying in the dirt of the empty forest. No one to find her. No one to help her. And no one to remember her.

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