Never After: Thirteen Twists on Familiar Tales

Forget perfect princesses, handsome princes, and "happily ever after." In this collection of thirteen flash-length fairy tale retellings, award-winning author Marie Brennan introduces you to a world of manipulative mirrors, treacherous pigs, and candy houses that will eat you right up. Each one is a subversive little gem, guaranteed to shock the Brothers Grimm.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
* “The Mirror’s Tale”
* “The Kindness of Sisters”
* “Conversation with a Wolf”
* “Gold”
* “A Smile, a Laugh”
* “Nesu-a”
* “The Princess and the . . .”
* “One Last Prize”
* “The Fall of the Fortress of Brick”
* “Many Faces”
* “Every Moment, I Dream of Sleep”
* “Just Right”
* “And Everything Nice”
* Afterword

• Turning Darkness Into Light
• Daughter of Necessity: A Tor.Com Original
• Maps to Nowhere
• Minor Mage
• Monstrous Beauty
• The Orphans of Raspay: A Penric and Desdemona novella in the World of the Five Gods (Penric & Desdemona Book 7)
• From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review (A Lady Trent Story): A Tor.com Original (The Lady Trent Memoirs)
• Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent (The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 5)
• Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court Book 1)
• Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems