Return the Sea

Return the Sea (approx. 5800 words or 23 pages) is a collection of Lovecraftian fairy tales retold with cosmic horror in mind. The unknowable calls across the ages, waiting for the stars to find their perfect alignment.The Mad Library: An adaptation of Cinderella. Ash lives with her stepmother and stepsisters, locked in a large house. The desert sings to her, just as it sang to her parents before it stole them away. When the great unknowable touches the lives of Ash and her family, she must choose either to renounce it or embrace it.The Star Book: A adaptation of The Star Money in which penniless orphan ventures into a strange forest, where she must lose everything in order to gain true knowledge.The Handless Girl: A adaptation of The Girl Without Hands in which a cultist's headstrong daughter must pay the price for the mad vision plaguing his dreams. She seeks kindness in the world and discovers the unknowable truth in its place.