#675 The Running Legs and Other Stories- Lucas Southworth
This is like fable or a fairy tale skewed, and twisted into a nightmare. “You’ll see that this story works like a dirty mirror. Be sure to recognize yourself.”
A father comes home from work. He is an axe-man, scary and gruff, but not the devil. His two daughters and their stepmother are there when he gets home. The girls watch in horror as the father cuts the stepmother’s legs off with his axe. The legs run away and the girls follow.
What comes next is a series of connected stories, like a song cycle, trying to remember a dream. They are: The Running Legs, The Bubbling Kitchen, The Two Princesses, The Devil Father, The Beautiful Stepmother, The Spider-web Sidewalk, The Howling Mountain, The Man in the Car, The Very Tiny Door, The Tightening Hug, The Wailing Park, The Loving Witch, The Dying Legs, The Dirty Mirror.
“Do you know why I tell you these stories…They are good places to hide…In them, people do things because they are the only things to do. Nobody has time to think. Nobody has time to remember or be afraid.”
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