{"id":288,"date":"2009-06-05T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelastackpole.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2009-06-05T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T16:31:11","slug":"terribly-twisted-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelastackpole.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Terribly Twisted Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA new anthology, Terribly Twisted Tales<\/a>, just came out. The whole premise of the book is simple: take a folk or fairy-tale and toss a new twist on it. Make the familiar unfamiliar and have fun.<\/p>\n

I have the last story in it, titled The Adventure of The Red Riding Hoods<\/b>. It’s a Sherlock Holmesian story featuring an anthropomorphic wolf, C. August Lupyne, and his chronicler and companion, Dr. Woolrich\u2014who is a Sheep. Humans exist, too.<\/p>\n

One of the things I love doing in stories is finding a way to explain away big things as economically as I can. In this story I had to explain how humanoid wolves, sheep and assorted other creatures existed along with Human beings. I managed it with a single line: “Though Men resist the comparison, as they are to the lesser apes, so are we to our more common brethren.” It says everything and nothing at all, which makes it a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

And, yes, I’d love to do more Lupyne stories. This one was just too much fun.<\/p>\n

Check the anthology. ISBN 978-0-7564-0554-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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