Thanks to you Nick - I urge you to look at the companion piece since it has so much different about it. The contrast to me is about the difference between medieval times, dreadful though they were, from our time, alienated from everything, above all the human alienated from the human.
The narrator is the whole trick. A German folktale handed to a Muslim scribe who keeps breaking off to be rude about baptism and Christian washing habits. You've made a story everyone knows unfamiliar without altering a single plot beat, just by changing who's telling it. Practising what you preach.
And Sheitan arriving as a man of wealth and taste, complaining about his rep. That got me.
The ending is the real addition, though. Grimm stops at the candle. You carry on to the reason he keeps the hood up.
Breathing life into old stories and with a sparkle of humour too! gotta love the devil!
thanks Murph.
Thanks to you Nick - I urge you to look at the companion piece since it has so much different about it. The contrast to me is about the difference between medieval times, dreadful though they were, from our time, alienated from everything, above all the human alienated from the human.
shall do… catching up. researching warfare…
Exquisite.
Thank you so much!
The narrator is the whole trick. A German folktale handed to a Muslim scribe who keeps breaking off to be rude about baptism and Christian washing habits. You've made a story everyone knows unfamiliar without altering a single plot beat, just by changing who's telling it. Practising what you preach.
And Sheitan arriving as a man of wealth and taste, complaining about his rep. That got me.
The ending is the real addition, though. Grimm stops at the candle. You carry on to the reason he keeps the hood up.