Once again you produced a beautiful bunch of stories. Many of them in fairy tale style with more or less happy or light-hearted endings. The odd one was darker, but that’s the beauty of interpretation—there’s no right and no wrong way. Thanks again to all of you for participating.
We are in the throes of the laborious process of changing internet provider and something tells me we are about to lose the service (again, but officially this time) for an undisclosed vague period of time. When it comes back, WP might be in another universe as far as I’m concerned, so bear with me. If there’s no prompt tomorrow, I’ll be back sometime.
Michael (poetry Michael)
Petaluna and the Prophecy | The Poetry Channel
Morpeth Michael
Microfiction challenge #25: The red tree | Morpethroad
Pensitivity
Kat
Corabelle and the Enchanted Tree | like mercury colliding…
Lorraine
Wordwitch
The Red Tree of Life | Black Cat Alley
Ellen
How Many Pieces of Forbidden Fruits? | Ellenbest24
Irena
Microfiction Challenge: The Red Tree – BOOKS AND HOT TEA
Carol
Lynn
Jane Dougherty’s Microfiction Challenge : After the Invasion – Word Shamble
Geoff
And on the twenty-seventh day… #microfiction #flashfiction | TanGental
Kerfe
Postcard Fiction: Sun Dial | method two madness
Merril
The Red Tree: Microfiction | Yesterday and today: Merril’s historical musings
Jules
(f) Mixed prompts JD/SPF/ Living in a Fantasy (12.7) | Jules in Flashy Fiction
My own
Bill
plus bonus late-entry from Hayley
and a second even later entry
https://specksandfragments.com/2016/12/08/meanwhile-in-the-conservatory/
Jane Dougherty Writes 
A high calibre presents here, it is a pleasure to both read and participate. Thank you Jane and all contributors.
It’s tremendously gratifying when the results are so good 🙂
A diverse bunch that deliver a great mix.
The best result 🙂
This was such a lovely picture! Sorry I didnt’ get round to doing it – we were struck by lightning a couple of weeks ago and lost contact with the outside world. Back on line now…
That sounds dramatic! Write one quickly and I’ll add it to the round up. Or just write one and I’ll post it later.
Yikes, Sarah! I hope there wasn’t too much damage.
I think I probably made it sound more dramatic than it was. The phone line down to our hamlet (6 houses) was struck by lightning and destroyed, so we had no phone or Internet for 2 weeks. And we have no mobile coverage anyway. Had to drive 1/2 mile up the hill to make calls. That and Christmas have thrown my writing schedule completely out!
Oh–it’s a pain to not have phone or Internet service, but I’m glad you’re OK. I thought maybe the lightning struck your house.
So even in our internet covered days, we are still at the mercy of Thor and his hammer…
These really captured the feeling of fairy tales. Not so easy to do. (K)
There’s a temptation to write a fluffy pink story and call it a fairy tale. Mostly though they are dark with nasty overtones.
I never thought about it that way, but absolutely correct.
Many of them are not suitable for small children at all 🙂
My older daughter couldn’t get enough of Hansel and Gretel when she was 5 or 6. She was definitely working something out. There’s no way to Disneyfy that one.
Just think of how many antiseptic endings have been written for Little Red Riding Hood. The Grimm brothers must have been hell to live with.
No sugar coating, that’s for sure.
A splendid group of stories!
And not all light weight stuff either.
No, they were quite varied.
Jane, good luck with your internet battle. Take up the sword and shield. We can wait for you as you do battle.
The portcullis is still up for the moment. I’ll post the prompt while I can.
Such a diversity of stories and forms, makes for great reading! Cheers to all 🙂
It would be fun to collect some of these stories for an anthology. Oh for the time!
LOL …. true!