Cleaning Up by Rita Schulz

Peter swallows hard, this time his parents are going it. They are going to cut off his fingernails. Then they’ll keep on cutting until he submits or they kill him.

He needs to run and does, into the dark, dirty streets of downtown Vancouver. He meets Jill a girl who decides to believe and helps him.

Peter knows his father is head of the underground gangs and needs to get to the police as soon as possible.

Now it’s a race, will Peter and Jill be silenced by his father and the downtown gangs or will he get to the police in time?

A story based on a Grimm's fairytale.