Overview

Once upon a time grew bones and blossoms.

In Grimm Remixed: Volume Three – Bones, Bloom, and Betrayal, fairy tales bloom from graveyards, sing through skeletons, and refuse silence. These 25 queer retellings are stitched from petals and scars, betrayal and resilience — stories that linger in ruins and thrive in the cracks.

Inside you’ll find:

One Good Trick (The Fox and the Cat) — Berlin, 2002: a drag queen brags of ninety-nine tricks until a silent companion shows them survival is the only one worth keeping.

Midnight Crossings (The Two Travelers) — Y2K Europe: two runaways cross borders, chased by betrayal, healed by witchcraft.

What the Ghost Asked For (The Stolen Farthings) — Berlin, 2012: a flat whispers for coins at 1:16 a.m. A child’s ghost demands memory as payment.

The Wild Heir (Iron Hans) — A prince raised by wilderness learns what kind of king softness creates.

The Sisters of Obsidian (The Three Black Princesses) — Sisterhood carved from stone and shadow, deeper than betrayal.

The Bloom That Waited (The Rose) — A flower refuses to open until treachery forces its bloom.

Crumbs (Hansel and Gretel) — Hunger, fire, and the kind of betrayal that never leaves your bones.

The Glitterbone Aria (The Singing Bone) — A murdered sibling returns as music — glittering, raw, impossible to silence.

Godfather of the Inevitable (The Godfather) — Late 23rd century: Death’s sponsorship aboard a starship becomes destiny’s contract.

Crown Me Gently (The Three Feathers) — A contest for a throne crowns tenderness instead of cruelty.

The Wolf Who Questioned (The Wolf and the Man) — Refusing predator or prey, a wolf demands a new script.

The Glitter Fell Like Grace (The Star-Money) — A queer saint gives away everything, until only glitter and grace remain.

And more echoes: The Echoing Owl (The Owl), We Weren’t Quiet (The Grave Mound), Last Night in Neon Fog (Death’s Messengers), Mixtape Under the Soil (The Ear of Corn), Where the Water Licks the Wool (The Lambkin and the Little Fish), Whitepaper (Rumpelstiltskin), Plumage (The Goose Girl), The Man in the Bearskin Coat (Bearskin), Ashes & Iron (The Iron Stove), Thaw (The Golden Key), The House of Many Shapes (The Six Servants), Unwatched Pot (Clever Gretel).

What makes this remix different?

Queer gothic grit — roses bloom with betrayal, ghosts collect debts, bones sing defiance.

Beauty in ruin — survival grows from ashes, tenderness crowns kings.

Stories with bite — drag queens outlast raids, wolves rewrite roles, saints glitter into legend.

These aren’t bedtime stories. They’re midnight rituals — whispered in kitchens, sung through bone flutes, written in petals and scars.

Grimm Remixed: Volume Three asks: what grows from betrayal? Answer: stories that bloom wild in the dark, resilient as weeds, unforgettable as bones.