Fantasy Short Story: "Curse as Old as Time" || A Final Exam Project
This story is an adaptation (a retelling, to be exact) of Beauty and the Beast which tells about magic, responsibility, and regret . Created and published online by the students of STBA JIA— Azzah Fatira Shofiyyah Hilwani , Lutfia Juwita Hakim , Auliya Nursyifa , Kenjiro Aditya , and Kayla Audrey as the Intermediate Vocabulary's final exam project ||| ONCE UPON A TIME , a mother told her child, “Never break a witch’s heart. For even the most powerful of men shall fall helpless, brought to their knees beneath the magic that binds them.” Just as it had befallen His Highness the Prince and his servants a decade ago. Because of mere mockery and laughter, that grand castle now stood silent, inhabited by monsters. “Someone shall vanquish the monsters in that castle,” the mother said. “Gaston the hunter will do so, and deliver our village.” *** In another world, Belladonna Brooks, a broken-hearted New York surgeon, had to oper...
