Once upon a time, there was a love that felt like a fairy tale.<\/p>\n
This is what comes after the happily ever after.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0Fairy Tales<\/span><\/em>, the magic has faded, the castles are crumbling, and the love story unravels into ghosts. Through haunting verse and raw confession, these poems explore the quiet wreckage left behind \u2014 when the knight doesn\u2019t stay, and the only thing left to believe in is the ghost of what once was.<\/p>\n For anyone who has ever loved, lost, and lingered in the hollow space between a beautiful beginning and a silent, unkind end.<\/p>\n Not the fairy tale they told you, but the one you survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once upon a time, there was a love that felt like a fairy tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":""},"product_brand":[784936059],"product_cat":[784936013,784936070],"product_tag":[784936022,784936015,784936067],"class_list":["post-2208","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-mbnovels","product_cat-poetry","product_cat-the-human-mosaic-a-poetry-collection","product_tag-english-language-fiction","product_tag-fiction","product_tag-poetry","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-external"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1368,"url":"https:\/\/mbnovels.com\/en\/product\/how-to-get-the-girl-paperback\/","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":0},"title":"How to Get the Girl (Paperback)","author":"Montse \"M.B\" Benavides","date":"June 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"From the author of Miniature Novels comes How to Get the Girl, a witty and heartwarming coming-of-age tale that delves deeper than your typical love story.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/61py9HWl1FL._SL1500_.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/61py9HWl1FL._SL1500_.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/61py9HWl1FL._SL1500_.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/61py9HWl1FL._SL1500_.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2211,"url":"https:\/\/mbnovels.com\/en\/product\/after-all-this-time-it-was-all-in-my-head-external\/","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":1},"title":"After all this time, it was all in my head: The poetry of unreliability (The Human Mosaic #2) (Digital)","author":"Montse \"M.B\" Benavides","date":"March 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The story you\u2019re about to read never really happened.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/51yGHh11qL._SL1500_.jpg?fit=752%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/51yGHh11qL._SL1500_.jpg?fit=752%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/51yGHh11qL._SL1500_.jpg?fit=752%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/51yGHh11qL._SL1500_.jpg?fit=752%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2499,"url":"https:\/\/mbnovels.com\/en\/product\/heart-full-of-starts-external\/","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":2},"title":"heart full of starts: the poetics of a broken beginning (The Human Mosaic #3) (Digital)","author":"Montse \"M.B\" Benavides","date":"April 12, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"This collection maps the scattered aftermath of a love built on beginnings that faltered and went dark.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6.jpg?fit=752%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6.jpg?fit=752%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6.jpg?fit=752%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mbnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6.jpg?fit=752%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2739,"url":"https:\/\/mbnovels.com\/en\/product\/miniature-novels-i-the-inevitable-death-of-the-heart-paperback\/","url_meta":{"origin":2208,"position":3},"title":"Miniature Novels I: the Inevitable Death of the Heart (Paperback)","author":"Montse \"M.B\" Benavides","date":"November 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In these pages, death is not an end but a reflection, a reminder of the fragility of life and love. 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