Short Story: The Frog Prince

Title The Frog Prince by S J Doran and a geometric image resembling a frog wearing a crown

'The Frog Prince' is a retelling of the Grimm Brothers classic of the same name reimagined with an LGBT cast of characters.

'The Frog Prince' is a short story following Prince Torsten as he learns the value of his word and the true meaning of friendship and the importance of trust.

As a child I loved fairytales and the worlds they depicted but even as a young man coming to terms with his sexuality, there was very little representation of LGBT characters in those old tales.

The Eye of the Storm

When you are a writer one thing that can inspire either excitement or fear is a blank page. Excitement for the potential it holds when there is a fountain of creativity that is bursting inside of you; fear when you set about to tap into that potential and there isn't so much as a drip that flows. Life right now is pretty miserable for everyone but there is still positivity to be found, but channelling that into creativity however is not an easy feat. Turning fear into fuel is something that can only happen when you're ready to embrace that fear and explore its depths, but set in an environment that is already negative, that can be very hard to do because you know that if you lose yourself in that dark abyss that even the light of the world above from which you fell might not be enough to pull you back.