At left, an oak.
You can look at this tree and easily imagine it full of trouble: crows, magpies, rooks, ropes, aliens. It's such an odd concept for we ground-bound mammals: trees. Why would anything ever go "up."
Well, because of what is "down," of course.
It's time to watch Anthony Hopkins in Titus again. Also, Ian McKellen in Richard II. I could see The Lion in Winter with Richard Burton and Katherine Hepburn as well. Maybe Polanski's MacBeth for good measure.
It is winter and my blood runs a little colder than normal, anyway. Nothing wrong with a little revolution in the family. My own children are not strong enough to want me dead. It isn't much of a generation that way but I can hope. Maybe they'll be murder among them yet.
So, the oak pregnant with the thought of something wicked. Makes good story.
I hope you are finding good story - even if it isn't quite wicked. Put a bad character in there just for me. Let him watch a beaver drown a duck as I saw on a morning two weeks ago. You wouldn't think it of a beaver; but, I saw it.
Write an evil beaver story. One of my favorites of late is I Want My Hat Back.
Who said anything about eating a rabbit?
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