Welcome to Grimwood!
Sure, sure. It’s a little dangerous and you’ve got curses running wild and the forest is dying and things are a little shady, but WELCOME ANYWAY!
At the heart of all this craziness is the Grimm family. One tiny wish turned into a clusterfuck of epic proportions when the witch in the woods comes for payment. Five hundred years later, the Grimm family is scattered, the woods are rotting from within, and the legacy the family was supposed to uphold has all but been forgotten.
WHEW!
Yeah, the Grimms are a little messed up, but they find their way. Eventually.
It’s Fen’s turn to shine. The youngest of the Grimm children, he had (potentially) the most normal life out of all of them. Well, until he was cursed to turn wolf-y and stay forever young (because a curse isn’t a curse if you don’t suffer the loss of your wife and children and get to live lifetimes with the guilt, amirite?!?!) and he retreated to the woods to live the life of a hermit.
Gretchen is a wake-up call of sorts to Fen. She shakes him out of his apathy and reminds him of the obligations that tie his family to the land.
This is a very loose (VERY LOOSE!) retelling of Goldilocks. It’s not even gender-flipped because I needed Fen to be the grumpy bear (well, wolf) in the forest whose life Gretchen disrupts when she wanders into his orbit. She might not eat his porridge or sleep in his bed, but she upends his existence all the same.
So enjoy this next step in the story of how the Grimms took back their legacy and worked on restoring Grimwood to the glory it used to be.
[show-book title=”Cursed Lives”]
Looking for a few extras in the Grimwood world? Check out these series shorts…
- Apple Wine and Kisses (Zel and Geneva)
- Home Is Where the Heart Is (Lucy and Connor)
- Broken Things (Isobel and Cade)
- The Heart of a Romantic (Adria and Micah)
- The Well in the Garden (Fen)
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