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The Little Red Hen: Who Will Help Me Eat the Pies? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5BBSSXH 9.99 paperback, 4.99 kindle, free on Kindle Unlimited -- The Little Red Hen planted the wheat.She harvested it.She carried it to the mill.She baked the pies. And when they were finished, they were taken from her. The law said they belonged to the farmer. The magistrate agreed. The council found no reason to interfere. Soon the story everyone knew was not the story that happened, but the story that was useful: the hen who refused to share. So the animals begin asking questions. Not all at once. Not even on purpose.A rabbit loses his jacket.Three pigs build a brick house.A horse starts holding meetings.A duck keeps arriving late. And somewhere along the way, the farm becomes something none of them expected. Told over the course of several years, The Little Red Hen: Who Will Help Me Eat the Pies? reimagines a familiar folktale as a literary novel about ordinary people trying to build a place worth living in. Sometimes the most important question is not who made the pies. It's who gets to decide what happens next.