Briarley

The only Beauty and the Beast I'm familiar with is the Disney film so that's all I can compare this to, but it seems an entirely different story. Instead of Belle we have Rose and she never meets the Beast - it's her parson father instead, English instead of French, who stays at the Beast's manor and meets the cursed staff (merely invisible instead of turned into furniture) and ends up falling in love with the Beast to break the curse despite his dragon-like appearance. I would be interested to know if this is more similar to the book because I feel the dragon features is an interesting choice, including the ability to fly and breathe fire but still having human eyes and body. The ending is really abrupt so it didn't feel very satisfying but I find that happens with most short stories. This is more a novella so we don't get a lot of time to parse out their relationship so it does seem forced or rushed but it's still an enjoyable read.