Hans and Margaret

By K. Weikel

FANTASCI's 2017 Songs of Spring Anthology Entry
Short Story

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There once was a story told long ago,
Where two children were abandoned - left all alone!
Now they story's replayed, two different children in tow,
Wandering the forest with creatures unknown.
Pampered and praised, their parents had been talking,
Fear grasped their hearts, so they left and started walking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: K. Weikel Publishing
• Release date: Jun 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463599907

K. Weikel

K. Weikel uses her three-dimensional characters to tell stories of life and adventure and magic."The One-Hundred" won the Wattys Award in 2015 and has reached over two million reads. Weikel has also won the 2017 Writers Awards for Building Monsters. She has written 60 books, including her first manga, "Katharsis". To learn more, visit her website: http://www.kweikel.comSERIES:Underdogs (4)Replay (13)Katharsis (1)The One-Hundred (6 Books, 1 Short Story, 1 Novella)The Haunted Mansion (4)The Blood Room [3 Alternate Endings]TRILOGIES:Dead MenMaskless TrilogyTrapped TrilogyCOMING SOON (1)DUOLOGIES:The Unnamed DuologyStop; GoSTAND-ALONES:WaterloggedThrough the Dimension of NightmaresWhen the Sky EatsCreatures of the BelowNord and the BordSamenessBuilding MonstersDollhouseThe Vampire's CarnivalKrystal's WorldLabyrinthFiguresMatchCagedList X

Book preview

There once was a story told long ago,

Where two children were abandoned—left all alone!

Now they story’s replayed, two different children in tow,

Wandering the forest with creatures unknown.

Pampered and praised, their parents had been talking,

Fear grasped their hearts, so they left and started walking.

It’s dead, Margaret whines as she smashes her phone back into her jean pocket. Now we’re lost.

I told you to charge your phone before we left, dummy, Hans replies, looking skyward, as if the leave would give him an answer to the predicament they’ve fallen into.

"At least I have a phone, Mister Irresponsible," Margaret chides, sticking her tongue out at him.

Whatever. Hans crosses his arms over his chest and looks around, ultimately upset. Now mom and dad are really gonna leave us behind.

"They wouldn’t do