A Grimm tale: The sugar-coated bars tasted so good, but Hansel found them hard to swallow.

[waferboard@mstdn.ca]

A Grimm tale: The sugar-coated bars tasted so good, but Hansel found them hard to swallow. The old woman slid a bowl of buttered mash through the grate, the scent thick and cloying. Hansel retreated into the shadows, his stomach tight with a dull, insistent ache. Every swallow felt like a betrayal of Gretel’s sobbing in the kitchen, yet he gripped the spoon until his knuckles went white. "Whether I am eaten or escape," he whispered to the dark, "I must first survive."

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