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21st Century Hansel and Gretel

Tom Ball

    They were demons, the two of them, a boy and a girl. They broke into the old spinster’s house and ate all her sweets and stole some things.
    The old spinster knew who had probably done the deed, and was keen on exacting a terrible revenge. So the next time she went on vacation she put poison in all her sweets.
    Sure enough the two demons returned to the house determined to make themselves at home this time. But the two died quickly.
    And no one knew where the two kids were. So finally when the old woman returned from her trip a few weeks later she discovered the bodies, now very black and rotten, full of maggots and so on.
    Of course the old woman had some explaining to do. She claimed it was all in self-defense and that she feared for her life with the anonymous intruders. She even claimed she had received hate letters from some unknown source.
    But everyone pretty much figured out what had happened and the police charged her with criminal negligence causing death. It was a controversial case with many of the local citizens supporting the old woman.
    However the judge sentenced her to six years in prison despite her advanced age. In prison the other prisoners murdered her in the first week.
    So the story didn’t have a happy ending. If I was a kid I’d like to read stories like this though.



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