Status Updates From Un cigno selvatico

'Right. One last roomful of straw, twice the size again...
And . . .
If the girl pulls it off one more time, the king has announced he'll marry her, make her his queen.
That's the reward? Marriage to a man who'd have had you decapitated if you'd failed to produce not just one but three miracles?'

'There are any number of boys like Jack. Boys who prefer the crazy promise, the long shot, who insist that they're natural-born winners... They drop out of vocational school because they can see, after a semester or two, that it's a direct path to loserdom—better to live in their childhood bedrooms, temporarily unemployed, until fame and prosperity arrive.'

9. Beasts
10. Her Hair
11. Ever After

7. Little Man
8. Steadfast; Tin

5. Poisoned
6. A Monkey’s Paw

4. Jacked

3. Crazy Old Lady

1. Dis. Enchant
2. A Wild Swan