In the vast countryside a girl and mother lived in an old house. Blackened by the spiral of cooking smoke coming out of the crumbling chimney. Which stood faintly out amongst the dropping trees.
Go and give this to her. Said the mother. Giving the girl and sparsely filled basket.
The girl left the house and joined the long road to the woman’s house. Before long she began to tire and a wolf appeared on the other side of the road, she continued to look down at the grey path, the wolf made an advance towards her.
Where are you going?
To see the woman in the village.
The wolf left the girl in the middle of the road. He ran to the woman’s house ahead of the girl. Not long after he was at the woman’s house and stood staring at the peeling door before knocking loudly in all the silence.
Who’s there?
It is me. I have food.
The wolf entered the house and ate the woman. She had not eaten for three days and was weak. He then shut the door and went up the creaking stairs to the bed. Another loud knock shock the door lifting the fine covering of dust around the rooms.
Who’s there?
It’s me. I have your food from mama.
A whispered command from the wolf let the girl into the house. He was in the bed nesting in the rags of the old woman’s blankets. With a stench rising from his last meal. The girl came into the room shaking from the cold outside and sat on the bed next to the wolf. She was interested in the growing body of the old woman.
What big arms.
Better to feel you with.
What strong legs.
Better to run with.
What big ears.
Better to hear you with.
What big teeth.
Better to eat you with.
The wolf then ate the girl with terrible shrieks coming from the house which after a while stopped. A man heard the screams of the girl and came to help, as he entered there was a foul smell coming from the bed, he ran to it and found the wolf sleeping. He grabbed the scissors from his knapsack and cut into the wolf’s bulging stomach. The girl fell out onto the cold hard floor covered in filth and did a dance of terror. The woman then came out so thin her skin sagged from the bone. They filled the wolf’s stomach with sharp stones. And when he woke he fell down dead under the weight of them.
The man drew the wolf’s skin with his blunt and rusting blade and went home. The old woman and girl ate the food and sat full for some time. Hours later the girl left and returned home.
Okay.
Okay.
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