This story is adapted from the Grimm’s fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel.” This adaption is set in the 2010s in Anywhere, USA..

A bronze sword thrust violently into the air, glistening in the radiance of four tubes of 60-watt fluorescence.

The assignment post-workshop was to take the critiques and make substantial changes to the story...I accepted that challenge.

The assignment was to write a story where the protagonist gained something but came at a cost. This was my pre-workshop story.

In this class, we wrote a short, mid, and long scene within specified word counts. These are raw writing pieces, far from polished products.