Fractured Fairytales: Ruby Red

She wasn’t taking it anymore.

For Ruby Red, living in the city projects wasn’t a happy skip down the trail. Murders, rapes, and gang violence plagued her neighborhood. Then the day came when the gang, “The Lupines,” broke into her relative’s house.

They ransacked the place. Yet before they could do any physical harm on her grandmother, Ruby entered through the front door with her current boyfriend, Woody Pineisco, who confronted the men.

The gang split, but not before their boss accidentally tripped on the grandmother’s sewing basket. He slammed into the wall, dislodging the antique silver axe that Ruby’s grandfather had used during his days as a lumberjack. The axe tumbled from its display pegs and lodged into the gang member’s skull, killing him instantly.

Ruby believed The Lupines would not trouble her family again. She was dead wrong.

Up through the gang hierarchy emerged a troubled soul out for revenge. The younger brother to their dead boss, he had the street name of “Big Bad” and the credo to match. Big Bad planned to let Ruby Red know just how bad a Lupine he could be. With several of his posse staking the house, he broke in while Ruby was out grocery shopping. Big Bad killed Woody Pineisco and dragged the grandmother away into the night.

When Ruby returned home, she found her dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor. Gang signs in blood covered the walls. Ruby discovered a spray-painted message on her grandmother’s nightgown.

‘Give us all the loot or Granny gets whacked!’

Ruby Red had other ideas as she held back her grief for the boyfriend she had wanted to marry. From off the wall she picked up her grandfather's axe. Then she jumped into her red Firebird and sped toward the gang’s hideout at the heart of the projects to confront The Lupines’ Big Bad boss.

“Little Red Rides into the Hood” - only this time, she plans to end the tragic story.

Coming to a fairytale near you.