Monsters and Beauties

I ran from one monster, only to stumble into the clutches of another.Fleeing a brutal father and a forced marriage, I escaped deep into the forest, hoping to disappear.Bleeding, exhausted, and desperate, I hid in a cave—but I quickly realized I wasn’t alone.Something watched me from the darkness.He was massive, horne...

My life had been a series of unfortunate events, each of them a test to see if I could survive the cruelty of men.All my life, I’d learned that men were nothing but tyrants, their wickedness etched into every demand they gave to those weaker than themselves, every lie they told us, and every betrayal.I never believed ...