Interlude I
The Nutcracker Gone Wrong
The old man paced back and forth, staring at the abandoned book on the armchair. This was wrong. All wrong. This is not how the story went. Not at ALL.
He’d been confused first when his main character looked like a boy, only to realize she simply had short hair. She was nothing like how she was supposed to be.
What had surprised him even more was he himself. He’d always been the older man (or woman) in the story. The wiser one, whom the children always listened to and respected. He wasn’t supposed to be this young! For goodness sake, he was barely older than her!
Where in the world was this story going?
And how was he supposed to get this story going if she didn’t sleep in the living room?
Everything was wrong. All wrong. He needed to do
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