fairytales Archives - Hunter Valley Writers https://huntervalleywriters.com/tag/fairytales/ Spread the word Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:40:05 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/huntervalleywriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-hvw-square.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 fairytales Archives - Hunter Valley Writers https://huntervalleywriters.com/tag/fairytales/ 32 32 157067554 Half-Wing Tales: Forbidden Fairies https://huntervalleywriters.com/2025/03/11/half-wing-tales-forbidden-fairies/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:39:33 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=17005 by Ebony Upward Flow opens her pretty dark blue eyes as she lies on the grass looking at the bright sunset on the dark green hills. She looks to her left at all the memory gems in the blossom tree, ...

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]]> 17005 The Wolves of Willow Woods https://huntervalleywriters.com/2024/10/22/the-wolves-of-willow-woods/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:43:40 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=15348 by Mia Carroll The wind whistled as a cool autumn breeze blew through an open window—but not just any window, this window was the window leading to Isla Jewel Bark’s bedroom. Isla Bark was a sixteen-year-old girl with jet-black hair, ...

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]]> 15348 An Adventure to the Dragon Caves https://huntervalleywriters.com/2024/09/06/an-adventure-to-the-dragon-caves/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 06:38:49 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=14930 by Twiny Tsang Jane was a normal girl, living a normal life in the normal town of Ashingburg. Being the daughter of a self-conscious mother, she couldn’t expect much. Plus, being the youngest of five sisters was quite enough to ...

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]]> 14930 A Magical Disappearance https://huntervalleywriters.com/2024/07/28/a-magical-disappearance/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:41:32 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=14547 by Willow Gore Late in the afternoon, I had finally pulled up to our campsite where my family was staying for a week. My dad kept begging me to help put up the tent, but I wasn’t bothered so I ...

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]]> 14547 Henry Sanks https://huntervalleywriters.com/2024/06/18/henry-sanks/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:53:45 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=14078 by Otis Fell Agnew There was once a young man named Henry Sanks. He was both handsome and confident. He had blond hair and eyes as green as grass, and he often wore a blue jacket. Let’s take a look ...

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]]> 14078 The Dragons of Destiny https://huntervalleywriters.com/2024/06/05/the-dragons-of-destiny/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:22:18 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=13917 by Grace Irvine There was a woman who gave birth to a lovely girl named Moonshine. The baby was very pale with glowing yellow eyes, and the woman’s husband, Micmi, hated the child when he first saw her. He had ...

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]]> 13917 Lock and Key https://huntervalleywriters.com/2024/06/05/lock-and-key/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:47:46 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=13908 by Jacelyn Tsang “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 …”  I quietly ran across the grass of the park towards an old house, which I had chosen as a ...

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]]> 13908 The Three Little Pigs (but the big bad wolf is polite and playful) https://huntervalleywriters.com/2021/10/13/the-three-little-pigs/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 23:46:25 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=4540 By Edru Smit Long, long ago, around the time when people believed that the earth was in the middle of the universe and the sun revolved around us, close to a gleaming lake and a dark forest, there lived three ...

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]]> 4540 Exercise the writing muscle https://huntervalleywriters.com/2020/01/25/exercise-the-writing-muscle/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 02:45:54 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=1119 Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. Jane Yolen

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