It's a Treat!

[andpuff]

Last year at Halloween, I was asked to write a short story for the Globe and Mail.  Really short.  Too short really to collect anywhere so, because I'm sure most of you don't read the Globe and Mail -- for purely geographic reasons, of course -- I thought I'd share it with y'all this year.

Happy Halloween!

Playing it Safe

There would always be a

Comments

[maiac]

"Ivory's just bone when you get right down to it. There's plenty around if you know where to look."

This is now #2 on my list of Simple Harmless Statements Tanya Has Written That I Need to Stop Thinking About Right Now Or I'll Have Nightmares.

(#1 is "Sometimes skin just gets in the way.")

[filkferengi]

That sounds like her, but I don't recognize it right off. Where's it from?

[maiac]

It's from Child of the Grove, her first novel. That line still makes me shudder 25 years after I first read it.

[filkferengi]

Understandably so, the cauld grue from the child of the grove. It's been too long since I read it.

Also, thanks for your prompt reply!

[nwhiker]

OMG.

My stomach just clenched with that telltale SCARY! RUN! feeling.

But really, it's just a gingerbread coloured house, right? RIGHT?

[peteralway]

:-)

[e_moon60]

Oooh...PERFECT!

[elynross]

This is just such a lovely, twisty thing! <3