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Flash Fiction: Don’t Piss Off Grandma

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PHOTO PROMPT © Fleur Lind for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. 

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.

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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.

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  9. Like many of the tales of yore, there is a moral message – So don’t Piss off Grandma- works well. I have not encountered, “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”, is it worth watching? I will look it up. Thank you.

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    1. It’s a strong moral many of us learn first hand. Ha.
      “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” is a slow burn and heavy in places with its themes, but the imagery is stunning and it’s thought provoking.

      Thanks. J.

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  10. I love the feel of this, and I laughed at Grandma’s ‘she shed’. I want one of those. The notion that she imprisoned the wolf, or its soul, in the tree. is very original, even though you mention the two fairy tales.

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