Unhappily After 3: Short Retellings for Adults

Unhappily After 3 is the third collection of short retellings for adults, where famous fairy tales are stripped of romance, morals, and child-friendly lies. What remains are sharp, compact stories in which classic promises systematically fall apart the moment they collide with modern rules, expectations, and basic common sense.

With dry humor and contemporary logic, fairy tales finally get the treatment they deserve.

This volume includes darkly comic retellings of Little Red Riding Hood (yes, again), Rapunzel, The Ugly Duckling, Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little Mermaid, and The Princess and the Pea, alongside a few stories that drift closer to modern myth and horror.

Fortunately, you’ll also meet the cheerful Miau the Cat, although the birds might not agree with that description.

What to expect:

• Fairy tales for adults, with black humor and dry satire

• Familiar stories derailed by modern logic

• Short tales you can finish in one sitting

• Themes of social rules, capitalism, consent, status, and human laziness

• A collection that makes you laugh, then lingers a little too long

No morals.

No magic fixes.

Only fairy tales that get exactly what they deserve.