A gift-sized book by the author of The Decoder Series
What the Fairy Tale Doesn't Say
Fifty Stories You Know, and What They Taught You
50 stories
“Somebody told you these stories before you could read, and you believed every one of them.”
What the Fairy Tale Doesn't Say takes fifty stories you already know and turns each one over to show you exactly what it taught you to accept.
The pea was placed there on purpose: someone slipped it under twenty mattresses and waited to see if she'd complain. Cinderella wasn't rewarded for her patience; she was trained by it.
What it is
Fifty stories, 350 to 450 words each: the tale told straight, the turn, and the Decoder line that names what it taught you. The doorway, not the whole map, for someone who was handed this book rather than someone who went looking for it.
In these pages, you'll be able to
- Recognize the pattern behind the very first story anyone ever told you
- See what “the moral” was actually training you to accept
- Name a feeling you've carried since childhood, in the time it takes to read one story
You don't need a word for it yet. Once upon a time is how they begin. What they taught you is how they stay.
Part of the same world
This book stands beside The Decoder Series, not inside it.
Every pattern named here has a fuller home in the series, starting with SEE, Volume One.
Beta readers
Read it before it publishes.
A small team reads What the Fairy Tale Doesn't Say first and tells Jennifer the truth of it. Leave your name and email and she'll write when the advance copy is ready.
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Hear when it publishes.