Fairy Tale Spotlight: Bugs on a Ring [Short Story Review]

"Bugs on a Ring" is a short story by Wyatt Winters. It is the seventh story in a collection called "Tales of Hayven Celestia," which was published in 2020. As I have already stated, this is a universe created by author Rick Griffin, in which he allowed many other people to write stories in.

This story involved an interesting planet where the only place anyone can live is on a ring that lines the entire sphere. The krakun use it for mining purposes, but there are a lot of problems with it. The main character, a ringel named Stitson, is actually there to get revenge. He is trying to murder a krakun, in this case the governor of the ring.

The problem here is that he is so blinded by revenge that he isn't entirely thinking about the innocent slaves that might get in the way. This leads to some terrible imagery that I won't spoil. I'll just say that there are a lot of graphic and violent scenes where some very innocent people lose their lives in this one.

The idea of this story is all about how revenge can often be blinding, or at the very least severely limit someone's vision. The story is well told, and I do recommend it.

This blog was written on October 20, 2025.

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