fiction - brigit's flame - fuel

This is my entry for the writing activity on the brigits_flame community. The prompt for this week was "fuel."

Foreword: Here is an approximation of the metaphorical conversation that I had with my muse this week.

Muse: I have two ideas for you this week. One is funny and one is a dark fairy tale that will crush the spirit of all who read it.

Me: Ooh, these are both cool, but people like funny, so I'll take the first one.

Muse: I changed my mind. You can only have the fairy tale.

Me: But, I wanted to write the –

Muse: It's the fairy tale or nothing. Now, go create some imaginary people and make them suffer horribly. Go!


So…yeah. Sorry, no funny this week. Instead, you get:

( ye horrible story of doome )