Being Beauty

A modern twist on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast.

They were all crazy. I was certain they were. Serial killers! Psychopaths! Maniacs! Until, suddenly, they weren't. Suddenly, their craziness made sense; their stories became true. My fear turned into love and my instinct to flee turned into a desire to stay. It didn't happen they way they thought it would- the breaking of the curse. I did everything against the book. Quite literally. The story books and movies were all wrong. Adam wasn't a beast. Gaston wasn't a villain. (He also wasn't named Gaston.) It was all . . . different and no one could have prepared me for the ending.

My name is Avery and this is the story of how I was the real beauty to a totally unexpected beast.