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CotW #63: Take a much-loved Disney story, twist it into an adult, kick-in-the-gut tale. Poetry or Prose. The most eloquent, elegant, entertaining entry, ascertained by Prose, earns $100 and stays atop the Spotlight shelf for six straight days. Feel free to invite friends, distant family, even strange acquaintances to play this challenge with you anonymously. Please use #twistedtales for sharing online. Now lights, camera, fiction.
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Love Will Not Thaw, Apparently.

When the hills and the seas and the fires have froze

But the children are being especially nice

The mothers bring all of the family close

And they tell the story of the princess of ice

Their voices paint pictures of summer and spring

When people could speak without mist in their breath

A time when the children could laugh and could sing

Before their fair princess merged life with cold death

The royals, the mother begin to recall

A kingdom dark powers so wanted to seize

A princess, a sister, who wanted it all

A queen, a sister, with power to freeze

A power kept secret but one fateful day

The queen and the ice made it all fall apart

A wrongful blow she could not take away

An angry shout and a frozen heart

With no signs of stopping, the winter storm rose

The princess began to shiver and shake

Ice from her feet to her head and her nose

And never again would the young princess wake 

The storm raged about the princess of ice

The queen distraught with her sorrowful please

But with all the strength and despair of her cries,

The frozen storm would not ever cease

After that day, Elsa was gone

Her storm all that's left of so long ago

Her people forced to stay and be strong

In a world only formed by ice and by snow

The say that the princess of ice still stands

In the ruins that once were the great Arendelle

Adventurers take hold of her icy hands

As they remember the day when her kingdom fell

The mothers remember there is still a chance

The kingdom's chance at a warmer start

For when adventurers take backwards glance,

Anna's frozen eyes watch them depart

The story does not fill the children with fright

They have never seen a warm sunny day

And if they never do that would be alright

The cold never did bother them anyway