The Girl in the Golden Hood
Despite watching her grow from a toddler to a child to a young teenager, the wolf had never dreamed that the girl he often watched upon the path was actually two different girls. How was he supposed to differentiate the twins from each other, when, like all humans, they looked so similar, separated only by their choices in capes and hoods?
It was the sister in the red hood that the wolf had tricked into believing he was her grandmother, but it was the other, cloaked in gold, that glowered above him when he awoke from his satiated slumber in the cottage bed.
The girl in the golden hood, she looked so much like her already-devoured sister that the wolf could not stifle the yelp in his throat at the sight. The sound started as surprise but quickly turned to fear, and then, after the girl started in with the hatchet and the knife, transformed again into the most miserable of howling, as if the wolf believed there was some finite amount of pleading that might buy him this sister’s mercy, might allow him to keep within his belly the bright prize he had so recently swallowed.
Great
Very interesting. this mind of the wolf, and the final paragraph. …good punch…nicely wrapped. Thanks, I enjoyed this.
Point?
“Don’t eat your sister maybe.”
“I’m yr’ sista?”
This was entertaining. I love how everything is from the Wolf’s perspective instead of either the usual third-person or from the riding hood’s. It gives the sort of essence of a three-dimensional character to him and really begins to mold him out some.
I love this flash and find myself reading it over and over again. “How was he supposed to differentiate the twins from each other, when like all humans, they looked so similar, separated only by their choices in capes and hoods?” Brilliant!
I love stories that put a spin on the familiar, especially when that spin is rather dark. The sentence with the hatchet and knife works so well because those two words jump out at you just as she must have jumped at him. Bravo.
Very clever twist, a sympathetic wolf! Kudos