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  His screams are brief and he makes no real attempt to defend himself. Shame perhaps?

  Changing back, I stand over him, watching as his body shudders and spasms, life blood pulsing from his throat.

  With no backward glance at the bloody corpses on the floor, I snatch a little box from the mantle. It contains a silver locket, a protector of children.

  From the lamp. I scatter oil over the table, the linen, toss it up into the thatch. A shovel of embers from the fire, and the whole thing catches light immediately. The thatch is blazing even as I step through the door.

  Karl is standing there, naked. “He eye-points the blazing cottage. “Why?”

  “A tragedy. Brave woodsman died trying to rescue old lady in fire. No need for mention of wolves.”

  He nods in silence and changes.

  Shrugging off the human flesh I am wearing, I step light-footed into the night. Karl’s great silver eyes reflect back at me, then he turns and lopes off into the darkness.

  I follow, holding in my jaws the small wooden box containing the silver locket.

  My daughter is going to need it.

  Afterword

  The story was loosely based on ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, an old tale which I wanted to retell with a twist.

  There are more such tales up and coming. Titles planned include:

  White as Bone

  Green as Envy

  Black as Night

  Clear as Glass

  Gold as the Sun

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  The next in the sequence will be ‘White as Bone’. A retelling of ‘Snow White’ with a dark, erotic edge to it.

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