She was shivering now. She absurdly convinced herself that she’d never felt like this. That it wouldn’t go away. That something deep inside was propelling her toward a disastrous fate, a blind, ill-lit plight of her own device. Still, she had the audacity to lean down to kiss her husband’s forehead, slowly, sensually, desperately. She closed her eyes. Tears brimmed them. She felt lightheaded. He stirred a little, murmured something, then rolled over.
He knew she was there.
She was in love, even then - but the inevitable was a bright-white infectious light, a great big wave of lunacy, pulling her downward, slicing through the undertow.
She raised herself from the bed and got dressed quickly.
She crept out of the bedroom, and the moonlight cast shame against her.
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The 5 Creepiest Foreign Versions of Disney Fairy Tales
The 5 Creepiest Foreign Versions of Disney Fairy Tales
When Disney turns an old fairy tale like "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" into a movie, you can probably guess that they water down and dress up the original story to make it more friendly to modern audiences. What you may not realize is that stories like "Snow White" and "Beauty and the Beast" are actually ancient tales that have traveled across cultures and languages like a game of telephone. Or that along the way, the tellers put their own little twists on the tale.
Their insane, gut-wrenching, nightmarish twists.
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“And so with th...
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Six Years. Countless Drafts and Formatting. Ridiculously Late Nights. So Ready.
“Her mother loved him – this had become apparent to him. Through the thick, arbitrary levels of her bitter derision laid a softer woman, much like Natalie,who, at all costs, resisted every attempt at exhibiting affection toward men.”