Ermengarde The Expansive: A (Very Short) Fairy Tale For The Rest Of Us

by Stephanie Mesler, Freda Frostbite (Illustrations)

Ermengarde of Obifobus is the princess movies forgot. King Abesynth the Lonesome did not approve of his daughter. For one thing, she was not a son. For another, she was a reminder of his deceased wife. Most unforgivably, she was fat. The King kept his child at arm's length, even when she brought him the most marvelous of gifts, allowing her to be raised by servants until she reached a marriageable age. Then, the King attempted to give her to Fancy the Vapid. One look at Fancy was enough to cause Ermengarde to rebel, refusing for the first time to do as her father commanded. From that moment forward, Ermengarde grew into her power and her position, managing to save her realm and a King from imminent destruction.

28 pages, Paperback

Published December 5, 2015

About the author

Stephanie Mesler has lived enough places to know the one she lives in now, Florida's Space Coast, is pretty fabulous. She is the author of Soul Hill Lullabies, a poem cycle, and Mothers' Days, a full-length play, as well as Adventures and Confessions of a Fat Lady Who Sings (a memoir), Love Lines, Under The Sheets, and GodSongs (poetry collections), Ermengarde The Expansive (a fairy tale) and Escape From Pig Hill, her first novel.

Mesler is currently prepping Ermengarde the Expansive and the Falling Star for publication in 2017 She is also finishing the first draft of The Road Home, a sequel to Escape From Pig Hill.