Pickled Petals is a poem book that I will be updating frequently. It will contain your daily dose of insight on my life and will hopefully help both you and I grow emotionally and spiritually. All of my poems will be interpreted differently by each person who reads them and that is okay with me! The only person that can read something and feel exactly the same way about it as you is you! Poetry, like all writing, is experience differently by all of us. Love my writing or hate it! I'll still appreciate you as a person no matter what! Now on with the Pickled Petals!

"I was ten years old when the monster in my father's forest killed for the first time" Princess Rista dreads the day when she will have to leave her father's castle and her two beloved sisters to get married. She feels at home in her small kingdom and even in the magical forest that borders with it. But with time, something strange begins to spoil her familiar world. Who is the monster that seems to be hiding in the forest and what does it want? And who is the evil queen who - it is said -plans to wage war on the neighboring kingdom? One night, lured by a mysterious voice and careless of danger, Rista sneaks into the forest to seek for answers. There, she makes a strange encounter that will change her entire life. And possibly the fate of her kingdom. A retelling of a famous fairytale.

Ellany was raised in a shielded place; fed lies since before she could walk. When beasts that should have only existed in her nightmares rip her from everything she holds dear, her will to continue is shattered. She tells herself she is prepared to die there on the forest floor. Yet, in her deepest state of darkness, she is saved by someone who deems her worthy of something she doesn't quite understand. Something so much bigger than her own misfortunes that she begins to fear it. Taken from the one person she trusts, she is forced to decipher friend from foe, and face her inner monster, alone. The darkness continues to advance and more are falling victim to their own demons. The line between humanity and beast is thinning. There is a war to wage against an overpowering evil. She must prevail or all is lost.