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Hauntingly Defiant Poetry
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 18 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Not every villain begins as one.
In Hauntingly Defiant: Fairy Tales Retold, familiar stories unravel to reveal the truths hidden beneath them - the weight carried by the good girl, the silence mistaken for virtue, the strength mistaken for endless capacity.
These are not the fairy tales you were told.
- Red Hood learns the cage was never the woods.
- Snow White questions the version of events you were handed.
- The girl who held the sea is named a witch when she stops swallowing storms.
- The crazy one remembers who rewrote her story.
- The quiet, the kind, the composed - become the threat.
Blending mythic cadence with haunting imagery, this poetry collection explores what happens when repetition becomes identity... and when someone finally refuses the name they've been given.
These poems are about:
- Emotional labor and erosion
- Narrative control and mislabeling
- The making of a villain
- Survival as transformation
- The power of reclaiming the story
Because sometimes the tower isn't protection.
Sometimes the cage calls itself love.
And sometimes the villain is simply the girl who stopped carrying everyone else.
For readers who love:
- Dark fairy tale retellings
- Feminist gothic poetry
- Mythic storytelling
- Nikita Gill, Amanda Lovelace, and lyrical reclamation
Hauntingly Defiant is not about destroying the tale.
It's about asking who was allowed to tell it.
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