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Little Red Grows Up  
by Alex Grehy

“Wear your best red cloak and hood

when you walk in the forest, those

woodsmen are lonely, they deserve

some good girls in their lives.”

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That’s what Mama Goose always

said as she sent her daughters

to ‘see grandma’ with their goodies 

in exchange for hard cash.

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Well, that wasn’t me.

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When my day came, I said NO!,

Mama got out her whip. But I trussed her

and plucked her, used her white down

for a headdress, set my poor sisters free. 

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The first hunter I met thought my outfit

quite fetching, he put down his gun,

got undressed, never suspecting. 

Do you like my warm camouflage coat?

.

So on to ‘grandma’s’, where a lusty great

wolf lay in a sordid, stained bed. What big ears,

what big eyes, what a big…oh, that’s a shame.

Do you like the fur trim on my hood?

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I skip down the path, singing 

tra-laa as I go. I hear the three pigs

are in town. They don’t know it yet,

but they’re guests at a barbecue.

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Fiction © Copyright Alex Grehy
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from author Alex Grehy:

After a lifetime of writing technical non-fiction, Alex Grey is fulfilling her dream of writing poems and stories that engage the reader’s emotions. Her work has been featured by a wide range of publications including Siren’s Call, Raconteur, Bookends Review, and Toasted Cheese. One of her comic poems is also available via a worldwide network of public fiction dispensers managed by French publisher, Short Edition. Her ingredients for contentment are narrow boating, greyhounds, singing and chocolate. It is a sweet life, yet Alex’ original view of the world has led to her best friend to say ‘For someone so lovely, you’re very twisted!

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