From: jhetley@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 6:59:06 AM UTC-4, William Vetter wrote:   
      
   > I was thinking the other day that Grendel breaks into the mead hall at   
   > night to slaughter thanes because he is a monster, and when we are   
   > confronted with a monster, the reader wants the brutal Viking Beowulf.   
   > That is what we call storytelling, and what we call writing is when we   
   > give Beowulf a crippled wife and a hound with three legs; and we give   
   > Grendel a backstory in which his mother the witch molested him and fed   
   > him spoiled weasel meat.   
      
   "Grendel" is a lost humanoid in GHOST POINT, wounded and hungry, dying in a   
   Maine winter storm.  Beowulf rescues her . . .   
      
   Jim   
      
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