Little Red Riding Hood, By Sara Spring

Winnie Brice sat at her desk and paused from typing to pick stubborn piece of lint from off her red sweater, as she went back to finishing an email to her boss, an employee came up behind her and asked, “Winnie, can you book me a flight to Mumbai from August 13th, returning on the 27th?” She stopped typing and swiveled around in her office chair to face him with a smile, taking her straw colored notebook with her right hand- she began to jot down the specifics of what he had outlined for her. Peter Liddell watched as her pretty little body moved and something sinister wrestled inside of him. When she looked up at him with her bright kind eyes he couldn’t help but break into a big toothy grin. Winnie, startled to see the size of his incisors as all four were predominantly large, blurted out unprofessionally, “My, what large teeth you have!” Just as quickly as it had tumbled out, she unsuccesfully tried to retract her comment. Peter smiled even more. Opening his mouth, he lunged towards her tearing at her flesh. Her screams filled the air of the office. Chomping on her neck to finish off the noise he hungrily fed on the young woman’s body, and soon a frenzy had over taken him turning him into a beast. Tearing the raw flash off her bones he ate until a sense of fullness caught up with him. Only then did he begin to slow and pick the meat tenderly from off her bones. A languid feeling passed over him as he sunk into a satisfied haze, sitting back in her chair he discarded her torn carcass into a heap on the floor beside him. Settling down, peace quickly turned to annoyance when he realized he still needed his travel arrangements made.