To boost my chances of acceptance, I thought it best to try and find one of the less popular stories. The purpose: to write a short fairy tale re-telling about an evil queen / step-mother character from a fairy tale for a call for submissions I had seen. Everyone’s heard of The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen, but I was looking for something a little different. I came across this Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale while researching some of the less well-known fairy tales that he had written. You have the powers to set your brothers free, but have you the courage and determination? In fact, she takes it upon herself to save them, no matter the personal cost to herself, which turns out to be quite high… However, Elisa doesn’t forget her brothers. And she succeeds in the case of the eleven princes, but her efforts are hampered when it comes to the princess Elisa. So she schemes to get rid of them by casting a spell to turn them into swans. A widowed king remarries, but his new queen turns out to be a witch who doesn’t like her twelve step-children.
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