Week 2 Story: Sex and the Goblin City

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This story takes place in a city that never sleeps, Goblin City. Four she-goblins Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda were living happily without husbands and enjoying their time in the city. 

They all had horrible luck keeping a man around due to their extremely large appetite, but that never seemed to bother the group of ladies. One day the girls had an amazing idea. 

"What if we capture men to marry, and once we get bored with them we can gobble them up for dinner!" Exclaimed Carrie, obviously proud of herself for the idea. The she-goblins all agreed that would be the easiest way to entertain gentleman in the all-female city of Goblin City.

One day, the airport was shut down due to an ice-storm, this was the perfect opportunity for the girls to try their theory out on real men. They hurried to get dressed up and transform themselves into posh city girls before running down to meet the business men who would have to get put up in hotels for the night. 

"Oh gosh, don't forget to make it look like we have other options here," Charlotte reminded the ladies before they walked down. They all used their magic to make the city look like it was full of men running around on business calls and hailing taxi cabs. 

The men wandered around, enamored by the charm of the big city and of course, the lovely women paying them attention. Eventually at a bar that night, the four friends made a plan to convince these men to marry them. 

They all proposed an elopement after too many glasses of champagne, to which the men agreed obviously under the women's spell. Once they were all happily married and settled the women were nervous to nibble on their nuptials, so they went to their shared storage unit in uptown they all shared (which is where they kept their ex husbands) to get a midnight snack. 

During that time, Miranda's new husband arose, realizing she was missing he called all of the girls husbands to find that none of them were home. Using their find my friend's location, the men tracked them to a storage unit in uptown where they heard horrible noises. They saw that the women had changed into their true form and were dancing around singing "True Colors," by Cindy Lauper for some reason.

The men, terrified at the sight, ran all the way back to their tiny studio apartments and hatched a plan. They called up the airline at an airport outside of the city called, "Flying Horse." This airline was known for being discreet about their tickets and getting people where they needed to go.

The men were able to hop aboard before the women realized they were gone and escape in the cover of night. The women were not to torn up about it, but the situation meant they had to go hungry for a few more days.

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Authors Note:

Honestly, I was really excited to start writing stories for this class and I thought I would try to do something that was more on the creative route. When I first read the Goblin City story I thought of the idea of sirens or mermaids and how that was very similar, but then I wanted to go more obscure with the story and set it in an early 2000s type movie that promotes girl power and things along that line. I know sex and the city the friends try to date men with no feelings attached, and I feel like this is a similar idea, except the men are eaten alive. 

Bibliography. The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse with illustrations by W. Robinson.