Everyone knows this fairytale. A red hood, a wolf, a road through the woods. They got it backwards.
Starting today, I’m serializing The Story of Red and Her Wolf on the newsletter. One chapter every Saturday, fourteen in all, free forever. Nothing in it will ever sit behind a paywall.
What it is
In the Deep Woods the thing in red is the one doing the hunting. Tristan is the ruined, beautiful boy bleeding into her forest, and he is the one thing she has not decided to kill yet.
It is a fairytale retelling for people who suspected all along that the girl in the red hood was the dangerous one. There is a wolf. The wolf is the least of anyone’s problems.
Content note. This is dark fiction for adult readers. Red and Her Wolf opens on a young man escaping sexual exploitation, and it does not look away: coerced sex, physical and sexual abuse, graphic violence, gore, body horror, and a curse that rewrites a body against its will. Tristan is twenty, and every character on the page is an adult. If those are your woods, come in.
Where to read it
The serial lives on the newsletter, not here. Chapters One through Three are live now, and a new chapter follows every Saturday after that.
Start reading Red and Her Wolf on the newsletter →
The whole book is also a free download from its own page here: The Story of Red and Her Wolf. The serial is the slower way in, one Saturday at a time, with everyone else reading along beside you.
While you wait
Four other serials are already running on this site, and every one of them opens free.
- Victoria. A grieving scientist decides grief is just an engineering problem and starts sourcing parts. Gothic Frankenstein, where the widow is the scary one.
- Taming Malice. My dark Sleeping Beauty, where the fae lord would rather wait for the princess to ripen than wake her.
- Nobody Came Looking. She walked out of a rave and out of everyone’s memory, and the wrong people noticed.
- Custodian. A priest carried something wounded and antlered home from the November woods. That was the first sin.
The woods are open. Mind the wolf.
