Princess Floralinda has been imprisoned by a witch at the top of a 40-story tower, with a different monster on each of the 39 levels below her. The problem is that none of the princes who come to rescue her manage to make it past the dragon on level 1, and the once-steady stream of princes seems to have petered out, and winter is approaching… So it’s up to Floralinda to find her own way out of the tower. She has to fight, sneak, or trick her way past all 39 monsters, but that’s the sort of thing that princes are for, not princesses. Luckily she’s got the help of a somewhat unwilling bottom-of-the-garden fairy to advise her.
This novella is more or less what one would expect if a fairy tale were written by the author of Gideon the Ninth, because that’s literally exactly what it is. Go read it, it’s wonderful in every way.
Comments