Snail Botherly

(he/him) hi, thank you for looking at my profile!! i’m aiming to write 500 words a day. i’m very shy but i’m trying to overcome it by sharing my writings! my name isn’t a reference to anything, i just wanted to come up with something silly lol.

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Get Out Of My House, Goldilocks

Snail Botherly

2 min read

Somehow, Goldilocks lost her family. Again. The bear one— not that one of vicious sirens or the group of thieves she called hers once. Usually it was because of some grand thing, abandonment, death, or dissolution— but this time, she simply lost them. Perhaps it was abandonment, but they seemed to rather like her despite the fact she broke into their house. Lovely folks, those bears.

She suppose...

Humour

Fantasy

A Vampire’s Lament

Snail Botherly

1 min read

As the blood from her boyfriend’s neck ran down Camille’s through from her greedy fangs, she couldn’t help but already miss the taste. The particularly woody sweetness that she couldn’t allow herself to taste anymore if she wanted to protect him from herself.

Alexander hummed a waltz as he ran a hand through her short hair. She withdrew her teeth from his flesh, and instead lapped at whatever es...

Romance

Fantasy

Tricky To Be A Thief

Snail Botherly

2 min read

Finding a way into tricky situations has never been a problem for me— although I still hadn’t learned the art of getting out of them.

“The police will be coming soon,” the art museum security guard said to me, and I glowered from the chair I was shoved in after being tackled and handcuffed. Quite rudely, might I add.

I tried my restraints. They did not yield for me, which was really a shame.

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Humour

The Princess, The Pirate, And The Harpy

Snail Botherly

2 min read

When the blindfold had come over her eyes while she was on one of her daily walks, Princess Rosemary had been more annoyed than terrified, even as she was lifted into the air kicking and screaming. This was rather par for the course, all things considered. Her father had been kidnapped before, her mother had been kidnapped before— it wasn’t anything unusual for a royal. What was unusual was that i...

Fantasy

Action

We Steered Ourselves To Death

Snail Botherly

2 min read

When we learnt the ocean was almost entirely salt, we didn’t question it. We didn’t wonder if all that salt was there for a reason. It was simply there— just another facet of nature that we worked to destroy for our own betterment.

When our ancestors needed a way to ward off shadows and wild beasts, they did as we’ve always done— they returned to the water, to the home of their own ancestors’ a...

Horror

Science fiction

Every Tunnel Leads To Fae

Snail Botherly

4 min read

“Are you sure this is the only path?” Bartholomew peered into the tunnel dubiously, lantern swaying in his quivering hand. The unicorn hair and harpy eggshells felt heavy in his satchel. Beneath him, his small horse Edith nickered and backed away, ears pinned back.

They were heading for the grand kingdom of Drosengary, home of magic and of bustling trade. They were traders and adventurers. Thoug...

Fantasy

Humour