In this award-winning novella, T. Kingfisher asks, โ€œWhat if you DIDNโ€™T want to wake Sleeping Beauty?โ€ The protagonist Toadling is most certainly not the princess in question. She is, however, an โ€œinteresting, but sadโ€ fae creature who tells her tale with a moving mix of warmth and tragedy.

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