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Everyone knows Cinderella's fairy godmother turned mice into horses. No one ever asked what the mice remembered when the magic wore off.
One mouse has spent his entire life surviving by a simple rule: large things kill small things. Humans set traps. Rats hunt mice. Open ground means danger, and safety is always somewhere narrow enough to hide.
Cinderella is the one human who keeps breaking those rules. She steps away instead of crushing him. She moves a trap from his path. And on the night of the Prince's ball, she opens the cage he cannot escape.
Then a fairy touches him with a wand.
Suddenly, the mouse is a horse.
He has strength enough to move a carriage, legs that devour distances, and lungs built for a road with no walls. For the first time, he knows what it is to be the larger animal-and what it feels like to run without searching for somewhere to hide.
But the magic cannot last.
When the horse becomes a mouse again, the cracks are still narrow, the roads are still enormous, and the creatures that once threatened him are dangerous once more.
The world has not changed. He has.
Told entirely through the eyes of one of Cinderella's mice, The True Story of Cinderella follows a creature from the hidden spaces beneath her house, to the road and palace as one of her horses, and back again-into a familiar world he can no longer see in quite the same way.
A fairy-tale retelling about survival, kindness, power, freedom, and what remains after the magic is gone.
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