The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chaps. 1-7: A Dark Power

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Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chaps. 1-7: A Dark Power
Author: gardnerhill         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Supernatural stuff.
Summary: Someone did indeed swear an unholy oath that night.


She would never make it home before that brute caught up with her. His hounds bayed, closing in.

Her woman’s rage filled her mind with one prayer:

Let me be the hound that hunts him down!

Yes.

She fell forward onto her hands become paws. She grinned and yelled for joy.

His last terrified look was sweeter than his blood.

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

That's a great and rather unsettling twist ^^" Yet it fits in so neatly with the legend.

And I like that single, dark Yes. It's chilling.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I always felt so bad for that poor girl. Maybe she did appeal to the old gods still out on the moor for a little vengeance - for her and all the women abused by the manor's lords.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

That would make a great alternative HOUND story.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

A new spin on the Curse of the Hound - female vengeance on the ruling lords for centuries of droit du seignor.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Bravo! This is brilliant. And so well written, too.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This isn't the first time I've turned a woman's righteous anger into lycanthropy.

[debriswoman]

Atmosphere built up beautifully:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks! I first read HOUN in the dark, dank Olympic Peninsula at the age of 15 - that tends to mark you for life.