Troll Bridge (+1 pt)

"Troll Bridge" is about an old barbarian man who, while talking to his horse, travels to a bridge to battle a troll. It was interesting because almost all of this short story is dialogue, so I am learning about this fantasy world through the character's interactions with each other. The barbarian tells his horse that he must fight this troll because it is something that all heroes have done in the past. At the beginning when he is explaining all of this to the horse, I imagined that the troll would be more of a monster that needed to be defeated. Once the troll meets the main character however, it is far from that. The troll has a family and can barely make ends meet. It's interesting because his troll family doesn't seem to care much that the barbarian came to kill him and they expect that that was his destiny. Instead of battling, the two end up talking about the way that the world use to be. Both of them seem to have this "destiny" that they were meant to have happen, the barbarian killing the troll and the troll being killed. The old man ends up sparing him and giving him coins instead. It is a light-hearted short fantasy story at the end of the day. It was not one that I would typically go out of my way to read, but I understand the interest. In just seven pages, a whole world was talked about and brought to the reader.

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