Don’t Piss Off Grandma
A Fudged Up Fairy Tale (Bite-Sized Fiction)
Grandma loved her garden. She always pottered about attending to something. Sometimes I followed along, listening to stories of the yesteryears.
“And the bad man just vanished?”
“Yes, my daring. The wolf is gone. Grandma and her friends took care of him.”
Everyone in town heard of the foul man collecting children like The Pied Piper.
One area of Grandma’s yard was forbidden. The “She Shed”. Of course, I investigated, carefully breaking in under torchlight. Wondering around the greenhouse office, I found nothing unusual.
On the way out, I bumped into a tree and gasped. A wooden face stared at me with terror. The wolf.
His soul was imprisoned within the tree.
Story Notes:
“Don’t Piss Off Grandma” is a retelling of the fairy tale classics “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Pied Piper”. You pick which. Inspiration was also drawn from the limited Prime series “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”. Great show to binge on but I won’t say more. People get their knickers in a knot over spoilers.
Other Fudged Up Fairy Tales can be read here.
Originally published at http://tannille.com on September 7, 2023.
