Heart-Eater: Fairytale Retelling

They don't warn you when you start eating hearts that eventually the heart you'll eat is your own. I have enough self-control to keep it to just the tiniest nibble every ten years or so, and I satisfy (ha!) myself with licking it in-between. You may have guessed that this results in constant hunger and a hollow spot in my chest even as I go on, but that much I kind of guessed would be the case, I just didn't understand why. It really took a while for it to sink in that my dreams of eating my own heart were not so much dreams, and were the cause of my sudden lack of energy, fainting spells, hollow feelings, and generally deadened aspect. Someday, if I live long enough, I might be able to persuade my heart to grow back. I’ve heard rumors that Koschei the Deathless started out as a heart-eater, and wound up able to grow his heart back enough and hide it well enough to live forever. Or perhaps he was just attempting to hide his heart from himself, and when the girl recovered it, she found a half-gnawed specimen of horror. Though you'd think that's the sort of thing a fairytale would keep in.


Inspiration: Google "quizzical" -> http://www.pressxtojustin.com/79890/376958/illustration/mola-rammed
Story potential: Medium-high
Notes: Interesting, could be good, this is more of a bare-bones and less of an anything that would actually mean something.