"May I have your name?" the faerie said.
"William," she said with a smile.
"Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!"
"Thank you," she said.
"To win it back, you must- what?"
"I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."
@MicroSFF
This could make a good Rumplestiltskin variant.
What if Rumplestiltskin was saving a trans kid from his materialistic and abusive parents saying he would take the kid if they could not guess his name, but knowing they never would guess it, because in books and stories they could only find his dead name. Then if they acknowledge Rumplestiltskin is male, they would acknowledge the preferred gender of their child.
#stories
Micro SF/F by O. Westin
Bartimaeus
Laura
StoneBear 
ity [unit X-69] - VIOLENT FUCK
Leonieke
Aloïs 🫖
Rozzychan
Mellando
FDA approved 
lychee
buwel
Aitor Zaindari
Tim
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