wrangling skulls

[marycatelli]

Ah, the fun of being a writer.  Figuring out where to put the skulls, and scratching the idea of following the fairy tale.  If she, Baba Yaga like, put them on poles around her home, the hero and heroine would decide that collecting them would take too long.  Decent burial for the dead had to take a second place to the escape of the living.

Whereupon I realized that the hero would have been grimly unsurprised to see them on the poles, but shocked to stumble on them out of place.