We’re still on my fairytale novella, Someone Else’s Shoes, that’ll be in the box set Once Upon Another World, even if I’m currently adding another chapter.
For those catching up, it’s set in the same spellster series world as To Target the Heart and In Pain and Blood, just in another empire and back a few generations from what I call “the modern timeline” of those novels.
It’s an F/F take on Cinderella with a trans princess.
We’re carrying on from last week, where Alla’s cleaning was rudely interrupted by Tamara snapping her fingers in Alla’s face and ending with Tamara demanding that she “Answer me when I speak, girl.” (punctuation slightly altered to fit)
“I heard you,” Alla retorted, cupping her ears. The dead could likely hear her stepsister, what with how abysmally loud each one of Tamara’s snaps was. “It would help if you pointed out where.” She spied no flaw in her work; not even when she sat back on her heels and gave each tile a critical eye.
Still, perhaps her stepsister saw something Alla couldn’t.
Tamara narrowed her dark eyes. They gleamed in the midday light; not as sharply as Alla’s stepmother, but with an echo of the same cruelness she reserved for those she considered beneath her. “Right here.” With a deft kick to the nearby bucket, Tamara upended the contents.
Cold, silty water splashed Alla and washed out onto the tiles.
Don’t forget to check out the other excerpts at Weekend Writing Warriors, Snippet Sunday or Rainbow Snippets.
Someone Else’s Shoes
Exclusively in the Once Upon Another World Box Set
Currently on pre-order for 99c
Aldrea Alien 
Wow, the intensity and the violence between them is almost chilling! It’s impossible to look away…
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😀
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Tamara definitely fits the role of the wicked stepsister.
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Mhmm.
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Nasty, nasty. She doesn’t deserve the handsome prince!
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No, she most definitely doesn’t deserve that ending.
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You told a remarkable snippet. What a time for both of them.
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Thank you. 🙂
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Well Tamara showed her true nature all right. A very effective scene! Excellent excerpt…
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Thank you! 🙂
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Ouch! There’s some real spite there!
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Yup!
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What a delightful lady – not! Her spite and malice really comes across well!
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Thank you.
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Tamara has serious issues. Great scene.
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Definitely!
Thanks.
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Last week,, I thought “what a b*tch”. I was right. Great snippet.
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Oh yes! Thank you. 🙂
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Owch! Maybe she should have seen that one coming… what a delightfully nasty piece of work!
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A chip off the old block in regards to her mother.
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Ooo the malice just drips from her doesn’t it?
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Yes!
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I can’t wait for Tamara to get hers! A mean woman!
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Very mean. But not as mean as her mum.
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I knew I didn’t like her. (I’d probably throw the bucket at her.)
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