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The Cloak That Would Not Leave: A Dark Fairy Tale in Two Voices
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Series: A Dark Fairy Tale
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Publisher: N. S. Streets
Published: Jan 31 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Cinnamint Bloom was born in 1972 to hippie parents who believed the world was about to change. She grew up wild and loud-magenta hair, metal concerts, a body that never let her down. She was twenty-two when she woke up wrong.
Multiple sclerosis. An uninvited guest that moved into her body and would not leave.
For sixteen years, she fought it. Raged at it. Treated it like an enemy to be vanquished, a curse to be lifted, a war to be won. And for sixteen years, she lost.
Then she tried something different.
She started talking to the pain.
The Cloak That Would Not Leave is told in two voices: Cinnamint's and Pain's. One is a woman learning to live in a body that has betrayed her. The other is something ancient and patient, older than bone, summoned by signals it did not choose-trying to understand why it is hated for doing the only thing it knows how to do.
This is not a story about healing. There is no cure, no breakthrough, no fairy tale ending where the curse is lifted and the princess is restored. This is a story about what happens when you stop fighting a war you can never win. When you learn to coexist with something you cannot escape. When survival itself becomes a form of grace.
For everyone who wears a cloak they did not choose.
You are not alone.
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