Unhappily After 2: Short Retellings for Adults
Feb 2026 · Unhappily After Book 2 · LinguisticaPro
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In Unhappily After 2, classic fairy tales are reimagined for adults with dry humor and modern logic. Romance, moral lessons, and child-friendly optimism are replaced by contracts, therapy sessions, legal loopholes, and consequences.
This collection features darkly comic takes on familiar stories such as The Frog and the Princess, Goldilocks, The Witch’s Perspective, and The Princess Gossip Club, alongside modern fairy-tale logic applied to superheroes and power.
Short, absurd, and uncomfortably logical, these stories ask what happens when fairy-tale characters finally question the plot.
No morals. No perfect heroes. No easy endings.
In Unhappily After 2, classic fairy tales are reimagined for adults with dry humor and modern logic. Romance, moral lessons, and child-friendly optimism are replaced by contracts, therapy sessions, legal loopholes, and consequences.
This collection features darkly comic takes on familiar stories ...
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Steven van Holland is a writer of adult short fiction, known for darkly comic and satirical retellings that strip familiar stories of sentimentality and easy morals. His work blends absurd logic with dry humor and modern themes.
Steven van Holland is a writer of adult short fiction, known for darkly comic and satirical retellings that strip familiar stories of sentimentality and easy morals. His work blends absurd logic with dry humor and modern themes.
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