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the Aarne-Thompson Index
“Special Agent Henrietta Marchen, ATI Management Bureau,”
It was the kind of voice that made me want to confess my sins and admit that everything in my life was my own fault.
ATI Management Bureau
I just figured you’d start talking to bunnies and singing into wishing wells.”
the Aarne-Thompson Index.
Centuries of helpless girls, half of them rotting away years before their Prince could come. It makes me sick.
Demi Santos, now officially convinced that she’d been abducted by crazy people, burst into tears.
“You people are insane.”
Demi Santos
“New and improved! Now with extra incest and murder!”
“Betting pools don’t count if you murder the person yourself,” I reminded her, earning myself a look at her middle finger as she held it up for my inspection.
“Don’t say ‘moronic,’” said Jeff. “It’s ableist language, and you know I won’t stand for that.”
“Pancake makeup
theatrical lipstick,”
“I just want it noted for the record that I was not responsible for killing the new girl,” said Sloane to break the silence.
Brothers Grimm.”
Jennifer Lockwood?”
petrichor
“Momma’s going to commit a murder today,”
She tried to turn those impulses into affectations, choosing rudeness over actual evil, but it was hard, it was so hard, and they never gave her an inch of credit.
Steel Magnolias
“Sloane just yelled at the story until it went away,” I said blankly.
Demi is the human equivalent of a nuclear bomb. I could cripple the power grid for this entire coast.
“Where’s your bitchy psycho girl?”
“The dire pronouncements are getting old,” said Andy.
“Remind me not to piss that girl off,” he said.
“I’m the one you need to worry about,” said Jeff.
“I pick all her shee...
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Polonius’s
“Sloane Winters,”
“Well, you should feel right at home here,” I said. “Either this guy is evil, or he has a very unusual set of atmospherics.”
Andy snorted. “I think they’ll bribe each other to take us off their hands.”
Urban legends aren’t real.”
“You showed your breasts to an eleven-year-old boy.”
“Please, please don’t file a sexual harassment suit against me for this, okay?” I muttered, pulled Jeff closer to me, and kissed him.
Maybe Deputy Director Brewer was right. Maybe I was being compromised.
Scheherazade
“I took out the troll, no problem,” he said. “But the frog …” A bleak look crossed his face. “I think the frog nearly had me.”
But that wouldn’t have the right gravitas, would it? The narrative wouldn’t like that.
Someone was playing with us.
“Lecture heard and received and oh sweet Grimm will you shut the fuck up if I get Henry to show you her tits?”
Andy looked at me gravely. “Henry, that is about the damn saddest thing I have ever heard in my life. You need a vacation.”
“Our dispatcher is evil?” Sloane stuck her head up between the seats.
“Okay, well, that’s new. Does that mean I can smash her skull in with Andy’s crowbar as punishment for making me flash a preteen?”
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“Fuck that; I want to be a dentist,” said Sloane, and stalked down the hall, leaving the rest of us to follow.
Didn’t spot the second bomb, Jeff, you silly boy
“You’re Adrianna,” I said. “You’re the one who went bad.”
