The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime

The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime — page 3 — For my mother Wilma Cuvelier

The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime — page 4 — Get off the streets Sabrina cried There's a monster coming Do you people want to get squashed Daphne shouted but New York City pedestrians were used to ignoring screaming lunatics Daphne turned to Granny Relda with a panicked face They won't listen Granny Relda took the girls by the hand They will Run children children The girls shared a nervous glance as they raced down the sidewalk pushing through the crowd and calling out warnings Soon the family came to an intersection and stopped in their tracks They weren't on the quiet streets of Ferryport Landing anymore this was the big city If they tried to cross against the light a speeding truck or taxi would flatten them for sure While they waited anxiously Sabrina took a quick look back just in time to see the collapse of the entire front of the building they had just fled A huge leg stepped through the rubble and dust With a dreadful crash the gigantic creature freed itself of the store It lifted one of its enormous pointed shoes and kicked a taxicab out of the way sending it slamming into a light pole and then skidding skidding across the intersection where it crashed into a newspaper delivery truck The people on the sidewalk let out a collective scream They're paying attention now Sabrina muttered Panicked pedestrians turned en masse and rushed toward Sabrina and her family Many people were looking back as they ran a young

The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime — page 5 — roared woman knocked Daphne to the ground in her panic If the monster didn't kill the Grimms Sabrina realized her family would be trampled trampled to death in the sudden riot The monster turned its massive head left and right Its lantern eyes scanned the streets until they fixed on Sabrina I'll get you my pretty the monster

The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime — page 6 — her 1 Four Days Earlier THE EXPLOSION SHOOK SABRINA GRIMM SO hard she swore she felt her brain do a somersault inside inside her skull As she struggled to get her bearings a noxious black smoke choked her and burned her eyes Could she escape No she was at the mercy of a cold soulless machine the family car Isn't anyone worried that this hunk of junk might kill us Sabrina yelled but no one heard her over the chaos As usual she was the only person in her family who noticed anything was wrong Murder plots horrifying monsters the shaking jostling rattling death trap the family used to get around Sabrina had her eyes wide open to trouble She was sure if she didn't stay on her toes her entire family would be dead by nightfall on any given day They were lucky to have

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