Long Memories

Marc Potts 

Trolls, like most of the Fay, have very long memories, and do not forget or adapt, or change their minds very easily.

The brief had been to kidnap Marley - Charlotte’s mother - some decades before - from that place in the park, on that very seat, where Charley had been sitting.

A few decades in worldly time, feels like yesterday to the enchanted beings, and the woman’s names and features were so very similar.

She had been sorting through her thoughts, trying to get close to the mother she never knew, when he had come across her. Now she found herself surrounded by hessian, literally captive in a sack with a knot tied on top, in the dark in the gardener’s shed with the overwhelming dusts of grass and fertilizer.

Charley literally had no idea of what to expect next.

She felt the top of her head for a small cut that was sticky with blood and to her disgust something crawled over her hand from a fold in the sack and down onto her neck. It had many legs.

She let out a scream.


- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances