...happy new year?

We've had my wife's son staying with us for the past two weeks, which has been great in a lot of ways but also means I have no me time at all and have totally checked out of everything, whoops. Also my team at work is severely understaffed (we are down to two people remaining of a team of five), which means everything is insane at all times and I don't have a minute to BREATHE let alone de-stress in any way. Like, literally the full-time workload of four techs has landed on just two of us, plus we've lost our boss and therefore have no executive backup. It sucks so much.

But I managed to Yuletide for the first time in several years, so yay! In contrast to how much a struggle writing everything else has been all year, this one was pretty quick and easy for me. Nice to have a breath of fresh air every now and then, yeah?

Into the Woods is one of my favorite musicals of all time, and it was fun to dabble in that fairy tale universe for a bit.


the tale you tell (2991 words) by kaydeefalls
Fandom: Into the Woods - Sondheim/Lapine, Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Baker/Baker's Wife (Into the Woods)
Characters: Baker's Wife (Into the Woods), Baker (Into the Woods), Witch (Into the Woods)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Introspection, Backstory, Canonical Character Death, POV Female Character, Romance, Non-Linear Narrative
Summary:

She never pretended to be the hero of this particular story.