The Old Man of the Mountain

One day, in homage to these adventures, she sat down and wrote it out on a full-scrap notebook that she stole from T’s stationery cupboard.

O was playing on the riverbank when the pirates came up the river and captured her. They took her away on their ship to Africa, put her in chains and sold her on the market.

After many adventures at the hands of cruel masters and shrill mistresses, she was sold to another caravan.

Blindfolded, O is led to the old man of the mountain. In the palace of the old man she is given a pipe and put to sleep in a bed of satin sheets.

Later she learns she has been pledged to the contract of the assassins.


She put the story away in a drawer, and forgot all about it…