THE TRUE STORY OF THE WICKED WITCH - Regan Taylor

Torrid Twisted Tales

Whiskey Creek Press Torrid - www.whiskeycreekpresstorrid.com

ISBN: 978-1-59374-643-8

December 2006

Erotic Fantasy Romance - Short Story

You've all heard the story about poor little Hansel and Gretel and what happened to them when they got lost in the woods, right? Well, it's not true. And the Wicked Witch in this little story is not wicked in quite the way you might expect.

Derek Williams just wants to get laid. It's the only reason he's dating Deena Carlton, the precinct badge bunny. But so far Deena isn't putting out and Derek is getting fed up.  Derek agrees to go to a writer's group to show support, hoping Deena will be so grateful she'll finally have sex with him. 

Deena is only attending the writer's group to impress Derek. She wants to be a cop's wife more than anything, which explains why she's slept her way through the precinct. But this time she has a different plan -- she's not putting out until she has a ring on her finger.

When Derek and Deena arrive at the cottage in the woods for the writer's workshop, they find out they are the only ones attending, other than the writer who invited them, Molly.   As the three sit together in Molly's "gingerbread" cottage, Molly begins to tell the story of Hansel and Gretel -- or what she calls The True Story of the Wicked Witch. The longer Molly talks, the hotter Derek gets, and the more he wants to know about Molly. What neither Derek nor Deena know is that Molly has plans of her own for the evening -- and those plans don't include milk and cookies.

A decidedly twisted take on a well known fairy tale, THE TRUE STORY OF THE WICKED WITCH alternates between the story that Molly is telling to Derek and Deena (which parallels their relationship in an uncanny way) and the story of what is happening in the present. There is a lot of sex, a lot of teasing innuendo and a twist to the story you won't find in any children's book. The characters are well developed, though to be honest, the only ones I really liked were Molly and her shape shifting familiar, Melvin. Derek and Deena were too dishonest with each other for me to truly like either of them.  For a shamefully sexy and often humorous tale, check out THE TRUE STORY OF THE WICKED WITCH.

Isabelle Spencer