Mary Asaro

A Dark Wood Carol Mary Asaro

Is it normal to dread going home? To be anywhere? Even camping out at an old abandon tobacco barn in the woods than to face the man you call Dad at home?It is for Mary and her mother. They would rather live in a withered barn in the woods than face those dreadful boot stomps from her father. Surrounded by their poor situation, Mary finds hope in a mythical story about elves and how these creatures made a treaty with the battered women in the village in order to protect them from any violent creatures known as man. Only fairy tales, one would say. Or is it?