[ASH/HCC] "Pedagogy the Hard Way" - a fractured fairy tale

[Drew Perron]

On 4/27/2017 6:17 PM, Dave Van Domelen wrote:
>  .|. COHERENT COMICS UNINCORPORATED presents an ASHistory Story
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>  '|`  /|(`| |   "Pedagogy the Hard Way" - a fractured fairy tale
>      /-|.)|-|                           copyright 2017 by Dave Van Domelen

Eeeeee! :D The new HCC got us a new ASH story, YAY

> [April 26, 1957 - The Black Forest, Germany]
>
>      "Lennard?"
>      "Yes, Georg?"
>      "What is all this?" the spider-spirit gestured with one of its eight
> legs, taking in the bloody clearing, only the occasional small finger or a
> foot recognizable as having once been human.

Yeesh. o-o

>      "I was teaching children lessons, like you said to," the neo-Aurochs
> replied, his basso profundo voice catching a little with worry.
>      "Lennard, what lessons can these children learn now?"
>      "Well, they won't be wandering into the forest alone!" Lennard beamed.
>      Georg sighed.  "No, these ones won't.  But the job is to teach them, not
> pulp them...."
>      "Sorry, Georg."

Intense. X3

>      This was written for High Concept Challenge v2 #1, "Fairy Tales".  I
> decided to go with a drabble, and included the time and location stamp in the
> 100 words, but not the header or these notes.

Ah! I was thinking "wait this could've used more fleshing out" - but 
drabble format, very good, very good :3

>      In the real world, the Nazis back-bred an attempt at an Aurochs, the
> ancient ancestor to domesticated cattle.  The results are still a nuisance in
> a few places.  I figure that the Heck brothers might have tried a little
> magic in the ASH universe, getting better results but accidentally creating a
> spirit beast version that survived past the end of WWII...and needed to find
> work as a fairy tale critter.

Wow. XD I love it.

Drew "nice work if you can get it" Perron